"persever" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "persevers",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "persevering",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "persevered",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "persevered",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "persever (third-person singular simple present persevers, present participle persevering, simple past and past participle persevered)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "persevere"
        }
      ],
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            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vii]:",
          "text": "Instruct my daughter how she shall persever,\n That time and place with this deceit so lawful\n May prove coherent.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1633, George Herbert, \"Heaven\", The English Poems of George Herbert. C. A. Patrides, ed. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1974. Repr. 1991. 191",
          "text": "Light, joy, and leisure; but shall they persever?\nEcho. Ever."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Obsolete form of persevere."
      ],
      "id": "en-persever-en-verb-LCT4GMKU",
      "links": [
        [
          "persevere",
          "persevere#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pə(ɹ)ˈsɛvə(ɹ)/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "persever"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "persevers",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "persevering",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "persevered",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "persevered",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "persevere"
        }
      ],
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        "English terms with quotations",
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        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vii]:",
          "text": "Instruct my daughter how she shall persever,\n That time and place with this deceit so lawful\n May prove coherent.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1633, George Herbert, \"Heaven\", The English Poems of George Herbert. C. A. Patrides, ed. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1974. Repr. 1991. 191",
          "text": "Light, joy, and leisure; but shall they persever?\nEcho. Ever."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Obsolete form of persevere."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "persevere",
          "persevere#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pə(ɹ)ˈsɛvə(ɹ)/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "persever"
}