persever
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persever (third-person singular simple present persevers, present participle persevering, simple past and past participle persevered)
- Obsolete form of persevere.
- c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vii]:
- 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.
- Light, joy, and leisure; but shall they persever?
References edit
- “persever”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.