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# perseverance

«perseverance» in Mova's school dictionary: **Keeping on trying to do something even when it is hard…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (perseverance, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Keeping on trying to do something even when it is hard, or when you fail at first. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perseverance/#m1)

2) (church) Christians speak of perseverance in faith: keeping faith through hard times. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perseverance/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school perseverance is a learning value: practise reading, keep going with tricky maths, don't give up. In stories heroes succeed through perseverance. In Bible lessons Paul writes that suffering produces perseverance. Phrases: «show perseverance», «with perseverance», «perseverance pays off», «award for perseverance».

### examples

- She learned to ride her bike through perseverance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perseverance/#x1)
- Our class has a star for perseverance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perseverance/#x2)
- Perseverance pays off: keep practising! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perseverance/#x3)
- The spider's perseverance inspired Robert the Bruce. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perseverance/#x4)
- It took great perseverance to finish the marathon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perseverance/#x5)
- Learning the piano needs patience and perseverance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perseverance/#x6)
- "Your brothers can be released," said she, "if you have only courage and perseverance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perseverance/#x7)

### note

Uncountable. Verb: persevere (with, in). Stress: per-se-VEER-ance. Spelling trap: perseverance (no «r» after the second e): not «perserverance». Similar: persistence, determination, grit.

### In the corpora

- [Perseverance means keeping going when things are difficult.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/35-courage-responsibility-rights-and-duties/17/)
- [The rover Perseverance carried a small helicopter called Ingenuity, which flew on Mars, the first powered flight on another planet.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/39-robots-at-work-and-at-home/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «perseverance» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perseverance/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.