persisting

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of persist

noun

  1. persistence
    Still, in the very fullest blaze of gospel light, while we see that both Christ and His work are most ungratefully and flagrantly dishonoured, by our persistings in the attempt to do for ourselves what He has told us we cannot do, […] 1854, Robert Aitken, The teaching of the types, page 99

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