Meanings
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of persist
plural persistings
- persistence
Still, in the very fullest blaze of gospel light, while we see that both Christ and His work are most ungratefully and flagrantly dishonoured, by our persistings in the attempt to do for ourselves what He has told us we cannot do, […]
1854, Robert Aitken, The teaching of the types, page 99
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiverelentless and indefatigable in pursuit or as if in pursuit
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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