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Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. simple past tense and past participle of perseverate.
Etymologies
- Back-formation from perseveration.
Examples
“This is nothing more than a pot-shot from someone who would've perseverated the discord.”
“Once, on a trip to visit my husband's parents in Atlanta, I perseverated for hours over whether, upon landing at Hartsfield Airport, we ought to go directly to his parents 'home or stop by and visit a friend first and risk being late.”
The Huffington Post: Delia Lloyd: The Private Language Of Marriage
“Unfortunately, the argument is made with such perseverated, autistic-like frequency that even politicians on the Democratic side feel pressured to echo the same sentiments, though sugar-coated catchphrases fully acessorized with vague, impotent reassurances.”
Jeanine Molloff: The Character Issue, FISA and The Constitution
“Republicans and the shouting class of Falstaffian blowhards -- minus Sir John's winning charm -- perseverated on Bill Ayers and socialism, "domestic terrorists" and dark meetings, and they crapped out.”
Kerry Candaele: Barack Obama Channels Sam Cooke on Election Night
“Also, it is important to note that even in the non-social condition, nearly half of the infants perseverated anyway.”
“A common perseverated response is for the patient to fold the paper in fourths or eighths.”
Simon & Schuster: The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
“If, following a request to do a new task, he continues to perform the earlier requested action, he has perseverated.”
Simon & Schuster: The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
“However, for days afterward he perseverated in reporting his troubling perception that their friends were very angry with him "because I fluctuated at the art gallery.”
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