To go on stubbornly or resolutely.
There is a way in which Britain is certain to have war and its horrors and calamities; it is this--by persisting in her present course of unpreparedness, her apathy, unintelligence, and blindness, and in her disregard of the warnings of the most ordinary political insight, as well as of the example of history.
To repeat an utterance.
To continue to exist.
Much of this prejudice, indeed, persists; for instance, in the heavy handicappings with which insurance companies saddle their West Indian policies, […]
From Middle French persister (Modern French persister), from Latin persistere, from per- + sistere (“to stand”).
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