¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Persisted
1. persist [v] - See also: persist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Persisted
Literary usage of Persisted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"... n persisted for a long time. This basis is by in means exact, since frequencies
outside the at>it range arc of some importance in speech, anj speech is ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"Word deafness persisted, and later the patient became insane with auditory and
visual hallucinations and delusions of persecution. ..."
3. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1843)
"Whilst I persisted in my good will to you, being to make a peace at Athens, by
treating the same with AIo ..."
4. A History of Greece: From the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation by George Grote (1862)
"... Carthaginians would probably have purchased his evacuation of Africa by making
large concessions to him in Sicily.3 He imprudently persisted in the war, ..."
5. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1902)
"... as he looked back after he had achieved his degree in physical science (for
he persisted in flouting his college tutors and throwing up the certainty of ..."
Other Resources:
