different between thoroughgoing vs persevering
thoroughgoing
English
Etymology
From thorough +? going (adjective).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???????????/
- (General American) IPA(key): /???????o???/, /-?o?/
- Hyphenation: tho?rough?go?ing
Adjective
thoroughgoing (comparative more thoroughgoing, superlative most thoroughgoing)
- With great attention to detail; complete, thorough.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:total
- 1871, Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas, New York: J.S. Redfield, p.50, [1]
- It must be reiterated, as, for the purpose of these Memoranda, the deep lesson of History and Time, that all else in the contributions of a nation or age, through its politics, materials, heroic personalities, military eclat, &c., remains crude, and defers, in any close and thorough-going estimate, until vitalized by national, original archetypes in literature.
- 1927, T. S. Eliot, "The Humanism of Irving Babbitt," in Selected Essays, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1964, p. 425,
- I am myself a thoroughgoing individualist, writing for those who are, like myself, irrevocably committed to the modern experiment.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter XI, p. 182, [2]
- Mr. Prayter was a thorough-going cleric in the way of eating. He ate till there was nothing left.
- 1967, Time, "Marijuana is Still Illegal," 29 December, 1967, [3]
- After six months of preparation, Lawyer Joseph Oteri began in September the most thoroughgoing legal attack on antimarijuana laws ever made.
Alternative forms
- thorough-going
Hypernyms
- going
Derived terms
- thoroughgoingly
Related terms
- thoroughgo (obsolete)
- thoroughgoer (rare)
Translations
References
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persevering
English
Noun
persevering (plural perseverings)
- perseverance
Verb
persevering
- present participle of persevere
Adjective
persevering (comparative more persevering, superlative most persevering)
- Tending to persevere.
Derived terms
- perseveringly
Translations
Anagrams
- preserveing
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- what perseverance means to me
- what perseverance
- what perseverance rover
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