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Definition of Perseverated
1. perseverate [v] - See also: perseverate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perseverated
Literary usage of Perseverated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1916)
"The perseverated word may be an arbitrarily chosen word used on every occasion
when it ... In determining complexes in this case perseverated words were the ..."
2. The British Journal of Psychology by British Psychological Society (1913)
"... and the attitude necessarily adopted in the case of the early figures seems
to have perseverated to a considerable extent in the observations made with ..."
3. The Elements of Practical Psycho-analysis by Paul Bousfield (1922)
"This is usually the case with these so-called ' perseverated' words ; they always
denote something of importance in the individual psychology of the test ..."
4. Movement and Mental Imagery: Outlines of a Motor Theory of the Complexer by Margaret Floy Washburn (1916)
"A stanza from Tennyson's poem was inscribed on the frame, and the last line, "And
starlike mingled with the stars," ran in my mind, 'perseverated,' for ..."
5. Collected papers on analytical psychology by Carl Gustav Jung, Constance Ellen Long (1917)
"This is usually the case with the perseverated words ; they always contain
something of importance for the individual psychology of the test-person. ..."
6. Benign Stupors: A Study of a New Manic-depressive Reaction Type by August Hoch (1921)
"Negativism is a state, he says, of perseverated muscular tension. [This would
apply only to muscular rigidity.] So far as it "Whitwell: "A Study of the ..."
7. Memoirs of the Life of Vice-Admiral, Lord Viscount Nelson, K. B., Duke of by Thomas Joseph Pettigrew (1849)
"... confines between the Cisalpine and Roman states, agrees with the general and
perseverated manner of betraying everywhere as their interest directs them. ..."
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