different between perseverance vs protraction

English

Alternative forms

• perseveraunce (archaic)

Etymology

From Old French perseverance, from Latin perseverantia

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??s??v????ns/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?s??v???ns/
• Rhymes: -????ns
• Hyphenation: per?se?ve?rance

Noun

perseverance (usually uncountable, plural perseverances)

1. Continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:perseverance

   • 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage

     It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman 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.

Related terms

• persevere
• perseverance of the saints
• perseverant

Translations

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French perseverance

Noun

perseverance f (uncountable)

1. perseverance

English

Noun

protraction (countable and uncountable, plural protractions)

1. (uncountable) The condition of being protracted
2. (countable) The act of protracting
3. (linguistics) The lengthening of a short syllable
4. (anatomy) An anterior movement on the horizontal plane; The forward movement of the tongue or of a limb
5. The act of making a plot on paper.

Synonyms

• (act of protracting: extending in duration): prolongation
• (act of protracting: putting off to a distant time): deferral, procrastination; see also Thesaurus:deferment

Related terms

• protractor