Both Uses
perseverance
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
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- I am practically industrious—painstaking, a workman to execute with perseverance and labour—but besides this there is a love for the marvellous, a belief in the marvellous, intertwined in all my projects, which hurries me out of the common pathways of men, even to the wild sea and unvisited regions I am about to explore.†
p. 22.2 *perseverance = continued effort to achieve something despite difficulties
- My courage and perseverance were invigorated by these scoffing words; I resolved not to fail in my purpose, and calling on heaven to support me, I continued with unabated fervour to traverse immense deserts, until the ocean appeared at a distance and formed the utmost boundary of the horizon.†
p. 209.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(perseverance) continued effort to achieve something despite difficulties
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)