All 3 Uses
persistent
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The Fountainhead
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- Keating would not admit that he had tried to see Dominique again, persistently and without results.†
Chpt 1.12 *persistently = in a continuing manner -- especially despite difficulties or opposition
- He went away, relieved and desolate, cursing himself for the dull, persistent feeling that told him he had missed a chance which would never return; that something was closing in on them both and they had surrendered.†
Chpt 1.12
- Those who denounced him too persistently were run out of their professions: some in a few weeks, others many years later.†
Chpt 3.1persistently = in a continuing manner -- especially despite difficulties or opposition
Definitions:
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(1)
(persistent) continuing -- especially despite difficulties or opposition
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)