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persevere
English
Alternative forms
- perservere
- persever
Etymology
From Old French perseverer, from Latin perseverare (“to continue steadfastly, persist, persevere”), from perseverus (“very strict or earnest”), from per (“through, by the means of”) + severus (“strict, earnest”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Verb
persevere (third-person singular simple present perseveres, present participle persevering, simple past and past participle persevered)
- (intransitive) To persist steadfastly in pursuit of an undertaking, task, journey, or goal, even if hindered by distraction, difficulty, obstacles, or discouragement.
- 1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear, act 3, scene 5:
- I will persevere in
- my course of loyalty, though the conflict be sore
- between that and my blood.
- 1817, Jane Austen, Persuasion, ch. 1:
- Sir Walter had sought the acquaintance, and though his overtures had not been met with any warmth, he had persevered in seeking it.
- c. 1918, P. G. Wodehouse, "The Agonies of Writing a Musical Comedy":
- He is a trifle discouraged, but he perseveres.
- 1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear, act 3, scene 5:
- (intransitive, copulative, obsolete) To stay constant; to continue in a certain state; to remain.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:persevere
Related terms
- perseverance
- perseverant
Translations
Further reading
- persevere in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- persevere in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- persevere at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- repreeves
Portuguese
Verb
persevere
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of perseverar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of perseverar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of perseverar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of perseverar
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pe?se?be?e/, [pe?.se???e.?e]
Verb
persevere
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of perseverar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of perseverar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of perseverar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of perseverar.
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purse
English
Etymology
From Middle English purse, from Old English purs (“purse”), partly from pusa (“wallet, bag, scrip”) and partly from burse (“pouch, bag”).
Old English pusa comes from Proto-Germanic *pusô (“bag, sack, scrip”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?s- (“to swell, stuff”), and is cognate with Old High German pfoso (“pouch, purse”), Low German p?se (“purse, bag”), Old Norse posi (“purse, bag”), Danish pose (“purse, bag”). Old English burse comes from Medieval Latin bursa (“leather bag”) (compare English bursar), from Ancient Greek ????? (búrsa, “hide, wine-skin”).
Compare also Old French borse (French bourse), Old Saxon bursa (“bag”), Old High German burissa (“wallet”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /p??s/
- (US) IPA(key): /p?s/
- Rhymes: -??(?)s
Noun
purse (plural purses)
- A small bag for carrying money.
- 1550 Mierdman, Steuen, The market or fayre of usurers
- And then mu?t many a man occupie as farre as his pur?e would reache, and ?tretche out his legges accordynge to the length of his couerlet.
- 1550 Mierdman, Steuen, The market or fayre of usurers
- (US) A handbag (small bag usually used by women for carrying various small personal items)
- A quantity of money given for a particular purpose.
- (historical) A specific sum of money in certain countries: formerly 500 piastres in Turkey or 50 tomans in Persia.
Synonyms
- (small bag for carrying money): pocketbook; coin purse, change purse
- (especially US)
- (small bag used by women): handbag (especially UK)
- (quantity of money): bursary, grant
Derived terms
Related terms
- bursa, bursar, bursary
- reimburse
Translations
See also
- wallet
Verb
purse (third-person singular simple present purses, present participle pursing, simple past and past participle pursed)
- (transitive) To press (one's lips) in and together so that they protrude.
- 1901, Matilde Serao, The Land of Cockayne, translator not credited, London: Heinemann, Chapter IV, p. 72, [1]
- The serving Sister pursed up her lips to remind him of the cloistral rule, almost as if she wanted to prevent any conversation between him and the nun.
- 1916, Leonid Andreyev, "An Original" in The Little Angel and Other Stories, translated by W. H. Lowe, New York: Alfred Knopf, p. 85, [2]
- Anton Ivanovich pursed up his lower lip so that his grey moustache pressed against the tip of his red pitted nose, took in all the officials with his rounded eyes, and after an unavoidable pause emitted a fat unctuous laugh.
- 1979, Monty Python, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
- When you're feeling in the dumps
- Don't be silly chumps
- Just purse your lips and whistle – that's the thing.
- 2002, R.M.W. Dixon, Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development, Cambridge University Press, 2004, Chapter 9, p. 403,
- […] Yidinj has just one prefix dja:- 'in the direction of' […] . There is a noun djawa 'mouth' in a number of neighbouring languages […] and it is likely that this developed into the prefix dja:-. The semantic motivation would be the fact that Aborigines typically indicate direction by pointing with pursed lips (in circumstances where Europeans would extend a hand or index finger).
- 1901, Matilde Serao, The Land of Cockayne, translator not credited, London: Heinemann, Chapter IV, p. 72, [1]
- To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles; to pucker; to knit.
- 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act III, Scene 3, 1756-9, [3]
- […] thou […] didst contract and purse thy brow together, / As if thou then hadst shut up in thy brain / Some horrible conceit: […]
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 13, [4]
- Upon hearing Billy's version, the sage Dansker seemed to divine more than he was told; and after a little meditation during which his wrinkles were pursed as into a point, quite effacing for the time that quizzing expression his face sometimes wore, "Didn't I say so, Baby Budd?"
- 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act III, Scene 3, 1756-9, [3]
- To put into a purse.
- 1594, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venise, Act I, Scene 3, 502, [5]
- And I will go and purse the ducats straight,
- 1594, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venise, Act I, Scene 3, 502, [5]
- (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To steal purses; to rob.
- 1616, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Scornful Lady, Act I, Scene 1, in The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, Edinburgh, 1812, Vol. 2, pp. 147-8, [6]
- Why I'll purse; if that raise me not, I'll bet at bowling alleys, or man whores: I would fain live by others.
- 1616, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Scornful Lady, Act I, Scene 1, in The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, Edinburgh, 1812, Vol. 2, pp. 147-8, [6]
Synonyms
- pucker
Derived terms
- pursy
- unpurse
Translations
Anagrams
- Pre-Us, Rupes, puers, pures, re-ups, reups, rupes, sprue, super, super-
Estonian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?purse/
Noun
purse (genitive purske, partitive purset)
- outburst
- eruption
- explosion
- spurt, gush
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Derived terms
- seemnepurse
Finnish
Etymology
pursua +? -e
Noun
purse
- (metallurgy) flash
Declension
Anagrams
- persu, perus, perus-, super-
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