Persevere

pėr-sē-vēr′, v.i. to persist in anything: to pursue anything steadily: to be constant: not to give over.— n. Persevē′rance , act or state of persevering: continued application to anything which one has begun: a going on till succe is met with.— adj. Persevē′ring .— adv. Persevē′ringly .— Perseverance of saints , the Calvin is tic doctrine that those who are effectually called by God cannot fall away so as to be finally lost. [Fr.,—L. per severāre — per sever us , very strict— per , very, sever us , strict.]