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These special features make Webster's New Dictionary of Synonyms easier to use, more precise and complete than any reference of its kind: 1 Quotations from outstanding writers illustrate how a word is and has been used.
Each discrimination begins with a brief common definition.
persevere
Special applications and shades of meaning are given for each discriminated word in an article.
For quicker reference every discriminated word is listed in alphabetical order.
persevere, persist are both used in reference to persons in the sense of to continue in a given course in the face of difficulty or opposition. Persevere nearly always implies an admirable quality; it suggests both refusal to be discouraged by failure, doubts, or difficulties, and a steadfast _ or dogged pursuit of an end or an undertaking < I will persevere in my course of loyalty, though the conflict be sore between that and my blood—Shak.) (acknowledged his complete ignorance of mathematics) Acoustic •impassioned, passionate, fervid, fervent emphasizes sound with reference to its capacity for being autarchic autarkic, autonomous, independent, *free, heard or the conditions under which it is heard
