"persistive" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From persist + -ive.",
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    {
      "form": "more persistive",
      "tags": [
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    },
    {
      "form": "most persistive",
      "tags": [
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  "lang_code": "en",
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          "ref": "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]:",
          "text": "Do you with cheekes abash'd, behold our workes,\nAnd thinke them shame, which are (indeed) nought else\nBut the protractiue trials of great Ioue,\nTo finde persistiue constancie in men?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1858, Alva Curtis, A Synopsis of Lectures on Medical Science:",
          "text": "It should further be observed, that this order of spasm is very persistive, sometimes continuing even after apparent death[…]",
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        }
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        "(obsolete) persistent"
      ],
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          "ref": "2008, Jouni Filip Maho, “Comparative TAM morphology in Niger-Congo”, in Folke Josephson, Ingmar Söhrman, editors, Interdependence of Diachronic and Synchronic Analyses:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Hilde Gunnink, A grammar of Fwe:",
          "text": "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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        }
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        "Indicating a situation that was the case at one time (usually past) and continues to a later time (usually time of speaking)."
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        "(grammar) Indicating a situation that was the case at one time (usually past) and continues to a later time (usually time of speaking)."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "grammar",
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
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      "ipa": "/pə(ɹ)ˈsɪstɪv/"
    }
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  "word": "persistive"
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    }
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  "etymology_text": "From persist + -ive.",
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    {
      "form": "more persistive",
      "tags": [
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most persistive",
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          "ref": "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]:",
          "text": "Do you with cheekes abash'd, behold our workes,\nAnd thinke them shame, which are (indeed) nought else\nBut the protractiue trials of great Ioue,\nTo finde persistiue constancie in men?",
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        {
          "ref": "1858, Alva Curtis, A Synopsis of Lectures on Medical Science:",
          "text": "It should further be observed, that this order of spasm is very persistive, sometimes continuing even after apparent death[…]",
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        }
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        "(obsolete) persistent"
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          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Hilde Gunnink, A grammar of Fwe:",
          "text": "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",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Indicating a situation that was the case at one time (usually past) and continues to a later time (usually time of speaking)."
      ],
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        "(grammar) Indicating a situation that was the case at one time (usually past) and continues to a later time (usually time of speaking)."
      ],
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        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
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      "ipa": "/pə(ɹ)ˈsɪstɪv/"
    }
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