Definitions for persists

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persists per·sist

Spelling: [per-sist, -zist]

IPA: /pərˈsɪst, -ˈzɪst/

Persists is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 247 anagrams from letters in persists (eiprssst).

Definitions for persists

verb (used without object)

1. to continue steadfastly or firmly in some state, purpose, course of action, or the like, especially in spite of opposition, remonstrance, etc.:
2. to last or endure tenaciously:
3. to be insistent in a statement, request, question, etc.
4. to continue steadfastly or firmly in some state, purpose, course of action, or the like, especially in spite of opposition, remonstrance, etc.:
5. to last or endure tenaciously:
6. to be insistent in a statement, request, question, etc.

Origin of persists

1530-40; Latin persistere literally, to stand firm permanently, equivalent to per- per- + -sistere, akin to stāre to stand

Examples for persists

But what you do not know is that the type once established does not persist of its own accord.

What allows evil to persist, Aquinas believed, is the “lack of good” by other people.

But why will you persist in living up here without any comfort?

But to persist, to endure, to put your will toward a dream that sparks you, is to live large.

“That said, underneath the surface differences in threat perception and how to deal with Russia persist,” he says.

But if you persist in this way, Nat,—don't you know what it means?

How then, does the Intelligent Design movement (ID) persist, in the face of so much damning contrary evidence?

I beg of you to persist in your address—the unnatural brother called it address!

And yet the real battle might be an even harder one: against the attitudes that allow all this to persist in 21st-Century India.

Why should she persist in this eternal search for this impossible condition?

I beg of you to persist in your address—the unnatural brother called it address!

But what you do not know is that the type once established does not persist of its own accord.

“That said, underneath the surface differences in threat perception and how to deal with Russia persist,” he says.

How then, does the Intelligent Design movement (ID) persist, in the face of so much damning contrary evidence?

But to persist, to endure, to put your will toward a dream that sparks you, is to live large.

Why should she persist in this eternal search for this impossible condition?

But if you persist in this way, Nat,—don't you know what it means?

And yet the real battle might be an even harder one: against the attitudes that allow all this to persist in 21st-Century India.

But why will you persist in living up here without any comfort?

What allows evil to persist, Aquinas believed, is the “lack of good” by other people.