All 3 Uses of
persistence
in
The House of Mirth
- She turned from the thought with a little shiver, but it hung on her all the way to the station, and dogged her down the platform with the persistency of Mr. Rosedale himself.†
Chpt 1.2 *
- With the slow unalterable persistency which she had always felt in him, he was making his way through the dense mass of social antagonisms.†
Chpt 2.5
- She did indeed leave cards in plenty; she kept herself, with a smiling and valiant persistence, well in the eye of her world; nor did she suffer any of those gross rebuffs which sometimes produce a wholesome reaction of contempt in their victim.†
Chpt 2.8
Definition:
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(persistence) continuing or repeating behavior -- especially in spite of difficulties
or:
continuing or prolonged existence of something