Both Uses
persevere
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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- Tess still stood hesitating like a bather about to make his plunge, hardly knowing whether to retreat or to persevere, when a figure came forth from the dark triangular door of the tent.†
Chpt 1persevere = keep working at something despite difficulties
- Perhaps if Angel had persevered he might have gone to Cambridge like his brothers.†
Chpt 3 *persevered = kept working at something despite difficulties
Definitions:
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(1)
(persevere) to keep working at something -- especially despite difficulties
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)