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Dedication vs Perseverance - What's the difference?

dedication | perseverance |

As nouns the difference between dedication and perseverance

is that dedication is the act of dedicating or the state of being dedicated while perseverance is continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.

dedication

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The act of dedicating or the state of being dedicated.
  • (countable) A note addressed to a patron or friend, prefixed to a work of art as a token of respect, esteem, or affection.
  • (countable) A ceremony marking an official completion or opening.
  • (legal) The deliberate or negligent surrender of all rights to property.
  • Synonyms

    * diligence * devotion

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    perseverance

    English

    Alternative forms

    * perseveraunce (archaic)

    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.

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