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usually uncountable, plural perseverances
Continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure. quotations examples
It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.
2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage