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Etymology

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FromMiddle Frenchpersister (Modern Frenchpersister), fromLatinpersistere, fromper- +sistere(to stand).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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persist (third-person singular simple presentpersists,present participlepersisting,simple past and past participlepersisted)

  1. (intransitive) To go on stubbornly or resolutely.
    • 1912, Norman Angell,Peace Theories and the Balkan War[1]:
      There is a way in which Britain is certain to have war and its horrors and calamities; it is this--bypersisting in her present course of unpreparedness, her apathy, unintelligence, and blindness, and in her disregard of the warnings of the most ordinary political insight, as well as of the example of history.
  2. (intransitive) To repeat an utterance.
  3. (intransitive) Tocontinue toexist.
    • 1868,The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, page238:
      Much of this prejudice, indeed,persists; for instance, in the heavy handicappings with which insurance companies saddle their West Indian policies,[]
    • 2018,Tim Flannery,Europe: A Natural History, page139:
      Throughout the period, toothy giantspersisted in the oceans. Perhaps the most spectacular was the megalodon shark.
  4. (intransitive, copulative, obsolete) Tocontinue to be; toremain.
    Synonym:hold
  5. (computing, transitive) To cause to persist; make permanent.
    • 2006, Marco Bellinaso,ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming:
      This would not be saved after his session terminates because we don't have an actual user identity to allow us topersist the settings.
    • 2009, Alistair Croll, Sean Power,Complete Web Monitoring:
      While hashtags aren't formally part of Twitter, some clients, such as Tweetdeck, willpersist hashtags across replies to create a sort of message threading.

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Translations

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go on stubbornly or resolutely
continue to exist

See also

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cognate terms using -sist

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