Persistive

Quick meaning: Persistive is an adjective meaning (grammar) Indicating a situation that was the case at one time (usually past) and continues to a later time (usually time of speaking).

Meaning

(grammar) Indicating a situation that was the case at one time (usually past) and continues to a later time (usually time of speaking).

More Meanings

1. (obsolete) persistent

Example Sentences

It should further be observed, that this order of spasm is very persistive, sometimes continuing even after apparent death[…]

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

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?

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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lasting, perseveraunt, perpetuall, still, continuate, cessant.

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