Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Steady in persisting; persevering; persistent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective See
persistent .
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- adjective obsolete
persistent
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Examples
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So what this means is that 6.5 percent of ohio citizens are in a persistive vegetative state?
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Or saving all those people who the doctors have so stupidly declared to by in a persistive vegetative state.
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Or saving all those people who the doctors have so stupidly declared to by in a persistive vegetative state.
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It stands to reason that the fragile tissues of culture are dislocated, and its delicate edges defaced, by such persistive governmental brutalization as the inhabitants have undergone.
Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910
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