perseverance
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
perseverance (uncountable)
- Continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.
- 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
- It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.
- 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
- See also Thesaurus:perseverance
- French: persévérance
- German: Beharrlichkeit, Ausdauer, Durchhaltevermögen
- Italian: perseveranza
- Portuguese: perseverança
- Russian: упо́рство
- Spanish: perseverancia
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