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persistive

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English

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Etymology

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From persist +‎ -ive.

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Adjective

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persistive (comparative more persistive, superlative most persistive)

  1. (obsolete) persistent
    • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
      Do you with cheekes abash'd, behold our workes,
      And thinke them shame, which are (indeed) nought else
      But the protractiue trials of great Ioue,
      To finde persistiue constancie in men?
    • 1858, Alva Curtis, A Synopsis of Lectures on Medical Science:
      It should further be observed, that this order of spasm is very persistive, sometimes continuing even after apparent death []
  2. (grammar) Indicating a situation that was the case at one time (usually past) and continues to a later time (usually time of speaking).
    • 2008, Jouni Filip Maho, “Comparative TAM morphology in Niger-Congo”, in Folke Josephson, Ingmar Söhrman, editors, Interdependence of Diachronic and Synchronic Analyses:
      The present paper looks at so-called persistive markers (denoting something like “still going on”) in the sub-Saharan Bantu languages, one of the major subgroups of the Niger-Congo language phylum.
    • 2022, Hilde Gunnink, A grammar of Fwe:
      Persistive aspect is marked with a post-initial prefix shí-. Its high tone does not surface when combined with a construction that uses melodic tone 4

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