Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PER-SIST'ENCE
PER'SISTPER-SIST'ENT, or PER-SIST'ING
PER-SIST'ENCE, n.
- The state of persisting; steady pursuit of what is undertaken; perseverance in a good or evil course, more generally in that which is evil and injurious to others, or unadvisable.
- Obstinacy; contumacy. – Shak.
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