3 uses
(click/touch triangles for details)
Definition
continued effort to achieve something despite difficulties
- Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.Book 2 — Old and Young (97% in)
- She was now enough aware of Sir James's position with regard to her, to appreciate the rectitude of his perseverance in a landlord's duty, to which he had at first been urged by a lover's complaisance, and her pleasure in it was great enough to count for something even in her present happiness.Book 1 — Miss Brooke (57% in)
- We know that she had much quiet perseverance in her opinion.Book 5 — The Dead Hand (27% in)
There are no more uses of "perseverance" in Middlemarch.
Typical Usage
(best examples)