Memorize vs Perseverance - What's the difference?
memorize | perseverance |
to learn by heart, commit to memory
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* 2009 , A Practical Study of Argument (ISBN 0495603406), page 123:
* 2009 , Hailey Abbott, The Perfect Boy (ISBN 006197157X), page 258:
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
As a verb memorize
is to learn by heart, commit to memory.As a noun perseverance is
continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.memorize
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* (UK) memoriseVerb
- Many years ago there was a rumor that a basketball star (Jerry Lucas of the New York Knicks) had memorized the entire Manhattan phone book.
- She was so used to the way he moved—they'd been practicing together for years, and she'd memorized the way his body worked.
Derived terms
* memorizationperseverance
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* 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.