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Definition
continuing or repeating behavior — especially in spite of difficulties
- Such questions, at such an hour, were bound to drift through his mind; but he was conscious that their uncomfortable persistence and precision were due to the inopportune arrival of the Countess Olenska.Chapter 6 (49% in)
There are no more uses of "persistence" in The Age of Innocence.
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