Perpetuate vs Perseverance - What's the difference?
perpetuate | perseverance |
To make perpetual; to preserve from extinction or oblivion.
To prolong the existence of.
Continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.
Persistent determination to adhere to a plan of direction; insistence.
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As a verb perpetuate
is to make perpetual; to preserve from extinction or oblivion.As a noun perseverance is
perseverance (persistent determination to adhere to a course of action; insistence).perpetuate
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Verb
(perpetuat)- (Addison)
- (Burke)
Derived terms
* perpetuable * perpetuance * perpetuation * perpetuatorperseverance
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Alternative forms
* perseveraunce (archaic)Noun
(-)- 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.
