PERSISTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does persisting mean? 

• PERSISTING (adjective)
  The adjective PERSISTING has 1 sense:

1. relentless and indefatigable in pursuit or as if in pursuit

  Familiarity information: PERSISTING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERSISTING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relentless and indefatigable in pursuit or as if in pursuit

Synonyms:

dogging; persisting

Context example:

impossible to escape the dogging fears

Similar:

continuous; uninterrupted (continuing in time or space without interruption)

 Context examples 

In revolving Lady Catherine's expressions, however, she could not help feeling some uneasiness as to the possible consequence of her persisting in this interference.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Delta-FosB is an unusually stable splice variant of the immediate early FosB gene, accumulating and persisting in the brain long after drug is removed.

(FosB Drug-induction Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

These findings suggest that pelvic floor muscle spasm may be experienced by women with endometriosis and contribute to pain persisting after standard treatment.

(Scientists identify spasm in women with endometriosis-associated chronic pelvic pain, National Institutes of Health)

This is a unique case in the animal kingdom of a communication signal persisting even after the target audience has lost the ability to detect it.

(Tiny Brazilian Frogs Deaf to Own Calls, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It was soon generally agreed that Tuesday should be the day; Charles only reserving the advantage of still teasing his wife, by persisting that he would go to the play to-morrow if nobody else would.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Fanny, meanwhile, vexed with herself for not having been as motionless as she was speechless, and grieved to the heart to see Edmund's arrangements, was trying by everything in the power of her modest, gentle nature, to repulse Mr. Crawford, and avoid both his looks and inquiries; and he, unrepulsable, was persisting in both.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

A very restless and feverish night, however, disappointed the expectation of both; and when Marianne, after persisting in rising, confessed herself unable to sit up, and returned voluntarily to her bed, Elinor was very ready to adopt Mrs. Jennings's advice, of sending for the Palmers' apothecary.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

And having gone through what immediately followed of the basis of their disagreement, and his persisting to act in direct opposition to Jane Fairfax's sense of right, he made a fuller pause to say, This is very bad.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

As to Mr. Crawford, she hoped it might give him a knowledge of his own disposition, convince him that he was not capable of being steadily attached to any one woman in the world, and shame him from persisting any longer in addressing herself.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

If Mr. Elton, on his return, made his own indifference as evident and indubitable as she could not doubt he would anxiously do, she could not imagine Harriet's persisting to place her happiness in the sight or the recollection of him.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)