Persistive
//pə(ɹ)ˈsɪstɪv// adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 persistent obsolete
"Do you with cheekes abash'd, behold our workes, And thinke them shame, which are (indeed) nought else But the protractiue trials of great Ioue, To finde persistiue constancie in men?"
- 2 Indicating a situation that was the case at one time (usually past) and continues to a later time (usually time of speaking).
"The present paper looks at so-called persistive markers (denoting something like “still going on”) in the sub-Saharan Bantu languages, one of the major subgroups of the Niger-Congo language phylum."
Example
More examples"Do you with cheekes abash'd, behold our workes, And thinke them shame, which are (indeed) nought else But the protractiue trials of great Ioue, To finde persistiue constancie in men?"
Etymology
From persist + -ive.
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