PERSISTENTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does persistently mean? 

• PERSISTENTLY (adverb)
  The adverb PERSISTENTLY has 2 senses:

1. in a persistent manner

2. with persistence

  Familiarity information: PERSISTENTLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERSISTENTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a persistent manner

Context example:

he was asking questions, unavoidable questions, persistently...

Pertainym:

persistent (never-ceasing)

Sense 2

Meaning:

With persistence

Pertainym:

persistent (never-ceasing)

 Context examples 

An infant that was born to a mother who persistently had high glucose blood levels during pregnancy.

(Infant of Diabetic Mother, NCI Thesaurus)

“Why, bless my soul, he made that very remark!” I replied persistently.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She had never forgiven him the chicken-killing episode, and persistently held to the belief that his intentions were bad.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

All of these bodies have small tilts with respect to their axes of rotation, so their poles are extremely cold and peppered with persistently shadowed craters.

(Where is the Ice on Ceres?, NASA)

A rare myeloproliferative neoplasm characterized by a clonal proliferation of eosinophilic precursors resulting in persistently increased numbers of eosinophils in the blood, marrow and peripheral tissues.

(Chronic Eosinophilic Leukemia, Not Otherwise Specified, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

But Martin could not puzzle out what strange whim animated them to this general acceptance of the things they had persistently rejected for two years.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It almost seems as though the captain had been seized with some kind of mania before he had got well into blue water, and that this had developed persistently throughout the voyage.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Our road was persistently upwards, and as we ascended the woods became thinner and lost their tropical luxuriance.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mothers who experience a persistently low or negative mental state due to clinical depression tend to have less interaction with their baby.

(Mothers’ and babies’ brains ‘more in tune’ when mother is happy, University of Cambridge)

The ceremony, as shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently floating about.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)