All 4 Uses of
persevere
in
Emma
- For a little while Emma persevered in her silence; but beginning to apprehend the bewitching flattery of that letter might be too powerful, she thought it best to say, "I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.†
Chpt 1.7-8
- It made him so very unhappy, indeed, that it could not be persevered in.†
Chpt 2.11-12 *
- What right had he to endeavour to please, as he certainly did—to distinguish any one young woman with persevering attention, as he certainly did—while he really belonged to another?†
Chpt 3.9-10
- She would be respectable and happy; and Emma admitted her to be the luckiest creature in the world, to have created so steady and persevering an affection in such a man;—or, if not quite the luckiest, to yield only to herself.†
Chpt 3.19
Definition:
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(persevere) to keep working at something -- especially despite difficulties