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persistency

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11 lettersPronunciation /pəˈsɪst(ə)nsi/Part of speech nounSorted ceeinprsstyStarts with PEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. persistent determination

Word origin

From persist + -ency.

Used in a sentence

  • By this hand thou, thinkeſt me as farre in the diuels booke, as thou and Falſtaffe, for obduracie and perſiſtancie, let the end trie the man, [...]
  • On entering her room he had been struck by the absence of that saucy independence usually apparent in her bearing towards him, notwithstanding the persistency with which he had hovered near her for the previous month.
  • However that may be, the hostility of the comic writers had evidently a general hostility behind it. Our tradition states this definitely and the persistency of the attacks proves it.

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