persistive
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persistive (comparative more persistive, superlative most persistive)
- (obsolete) persistent
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
- Do you with cheekes abash'd, behold our workes,
And thinke them shame, which are (indeed) nought else
But the protractiue trials of great Ioue,
To finde persistiue constancie in men?
- 1858, Alva Curtis, A Synopsis of Lectures on Medical Science:
- It should further be observed, that this order of spasm is very persistive, sometimes continuing even after apparent death […]
- (grammar) Indicating a situation that was the case at one time (usually past) and continues to a later time (usually time of speaking).
- 2008, Jouni Filip Maho, “Comparative TAM morphology in Niger-Congo”, in Folke Josephson, Ingmar Söhrman, editors, Interdependence of Diachronic and Synchronic Analyses:
- The present paper looks at so-called persistive markers (denoting something like “still going on”) in the sub-Saharan Bantu languages, one of the major subgroups of the Niger-Congo language phylum.
- 2022, Hilde Gunnink, A grammar of Fwe:
- Persistive aspect is marked with a post-initial prefix shí-. Its high tone does not surface when combined with a construction that uses melodic tone 4
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- “persistive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.