PERSEVERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does persevering mean? 

• PERSEVERING (adjective)
  The adjective PERSEVERING has 1 sense:

1. quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness

  Familiarity information: PERSEVERING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERSEVERING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness

Synonyms:

diligent; persevering

Context example:

with persevering (or patient) industry she revived the failing business

Similar:

patient (enduring trying circumstances with even temper or characterized by such endurance)

 Context examples 

Had his choice been less unexceptionable, I should have condemned his persevering.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“I think I am earnest and persevering?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

On Miss Lucas's persevering, however, she added, “Very well, if it must be so, it must.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I will be cool, persevering, and prudent.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

What right had he to endeavour to please, as he certainly did—to distinguish any one young woman with persevering attention, as he certainly did—while he really belonged to another?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I have heard, said he, with great compassion, of the injustice your friend Mr. Ferrars has suffered from his family; for if I understand the matter right, he has been entirely cast off by them for persevering in his engagement with a very deserving young woman.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your interests were the same as his.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But for his having been so patient and persevering for so long a time, we never could have hoped to do anything worth speaking of.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If you are resolved on acting, replied the persevering Edmund, I must hope it will be in a very small and quiet way; and I think a theatre ought not to be attempted.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She would be respectable and happy; and Emma admitted her to be the luckiest creature in the world, to have created so steady and persevering an affection in such a man;—or, if not quite the luckiest, to yield only to herself.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)