persever

English

Verb

persever (third-person singular simple present persevers, present participle persevering, simple past and past participle persevered)

1. Obsolete form of persevere.
   • 1623, William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, III.7

     Instruct my daughter how she shall persever, / That time and place with this deceit so lawful / May prove coherent.

   • 1633, George Herbert, "Heaven", The English Poems of George Herbert. C. A. Patrides, ed. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1974. Repr. 1991. 191

     Light, joy, and leisure; but shall they persever? / Echo. Ever.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “persever”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• perverse, preserve