persever
English
Verb
persever (third-person singular simple present persevers, present participle persevering, simple past and past participle persevered)
- Obsolete form of persevere.
- 1623, William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, III.7
- Instruct my daughter how she shall persever, / That time and place with this deceit so lawful / May prove coherent.
- 1633, George Herbert, "Heaven", The English Poems of George Herbert. C. A. Patrides, ed. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1974. Repr. 1991. 191
- Light, joy, and leisure; but shall they persever? / Echo. Ever.
- 1623, William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, III.7
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for persever in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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