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noun

Persistency, Persistence n.

The quality or state of being persistent; staying or continuing quality; hence, in an unfavorable sense, doggedness; obstinacy.

The continuance of an effect after the cause which first gave rise to it is removed; as:

(a)

(Physics) The persistence of motion.

(b)

(Physiol.) Visual persistence, or persistence of the visual impression; auditory persistence, etc.

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Etymology of 'Persistency'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... Socialists and the Centre, closely organised, admirably disciplined, obedient to leaders who were in opposition by principle; they looked on the Parliamentary campaign as a struggle for power, and they maintained the struggle with a persistency and success which had not been surpassed by any Parliamentary Opposition in any other country. Apart from them the attitude of all the parties was normally that of moderate criticism directed to the matter of the Government proposals. There were, of course, often ...

— Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire • James Wycliffe Headlam

... Adelle for what she had secretly been a little proud of, her first "affair," and easily killed with her contempt any possibility of the girl's yielding to the banker's persistency. ...

— Clark's Field • Robert Herrick

... drudgery does not end in a barnacle, or in dead coin, but in a living and loved personality whose comfort and health it secures. Blessed is drudgery, the homely mother of Patience, "that young and rose-lipped cherubim," of quiet endurance, of persistency in well-doing, of all ...

— The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons - A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis • Ellice Hopkins

... point is Hawthorne's peculiarity so obviously marked as in the persistency with which he clings to a physical image, vividly impressing it upon the mind, like a text which gathers atmosphere and discloses significance under the special treatment of the preacher. It is said that he had, artistically, the allegorizing temperament, and he in fact did use ...

— Nathaniel Hawthorne • George E. Woodberry

... me lie, Fraeulein?" asked Max, amused at her persistency. "I cannot do that, even for you. If you insist upon having the bird, I may go to the duke and ...

— Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy • Charles Major

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