Noun

(-)

Continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.

Persistent determination to adhere to a plan of direction; insistence.

* 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage

It had taken nine years from the evening that first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.

Noun

(consistencies)

Local coherence.

Correspondence or compatibility.

Reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent.

* Addison

That consistency of behaviour whereby he inflexibly pursues those measures which appear the most just.

The degree of viscosity of something.

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(logic) Freedom from contradiction; the state of a system of axioms such that none of the propositions deduced from them are mutually contradictory.

(obsolete) Firmness of constitution or character; substantiality; durability; persistency.

* South

His friendship is of a noble make and a lasting consistency .