Persistency is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PERSISTENCY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the action or fact of persisting, also PERSISTENCE
• The quality or state of being persistent; staying or continuing quality; hence, in an unfavorable sense, doggedness; obstinacy.
• The continuance of an effect after the cause which first gave rise to it is removed
• The persistence of motion.
• Visual persistence, or persistence of the visual impression; auditory persistence, etc.
• persistent determination
• the action or fact of persisting
• the quality of being persistent, lasting or enduring tenaciously.

Words related to PERSISTENCY

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How to use PERSISTENCY in a sentence

• Then a certain dogged persistency I possess came to my rescue, and I re-entered the room at a leap and stood before the lounge and its pile of cushions.
• Their records display less of brilliancy, but more of patient persistency, than those of Greece, less of spectacular individualism, more of truly patriotic self-suppression.
• Their silent resolution, their steadfast, grim, persistency even in such a cause commanded, as well as fear, even a measure of respect.
• The persistency with which the English lessons had gone on was amazing, for Amy usually tired of everything in a day or two.
• They liked the persistency with which he had claimed his wife, and applauded her to the echo for her love and firmness.
• We can only bring them to agree with us, if it be possible on any terms, by persistency in our principles.
• Trina was blindly persistent, with the persistency of a girl who has made up her mind.
• Harlson might or might not be in earnest in what he had declared, but, even if in earnest, there was the matter of persistency.
• The characteristic of a genuine heroism is its persistency.
• And yet there exist innumerable bores scattered through the length and breadth of our happy country, and carrying on their dismal business with an almost malignant persistency.
• The extreme of the contrasted type, the type with associations of small persistency, is found in those who have almost no desultory memory at all.
• There was nothing to reassure her save the vision of the panic amazement of his face at her persistency in speaking of Miss Dale.
• He was impatient with himself, and annoyed by the persistency of the impression that Paolo was in some way present in the place.
• But the problems that we have taken up by no means exhaust the series of those that present themselves to one who thinks with patience and persistency.
• From his mother Darwin inherited those traits of gentleness, insight, purity of purpose, patience and persistency that set him apart as a marked man.
• Made angry by his petty losses, he followed the game with dogged persistency.
• The Marquise was constantly put in mind of the journey made in 1814, when as yet she know nothing of love, and had been almost ready to curse it for its persistency.
• The groping will still continue, with more and more persistency.
• One cannot help thinking what graces of character and person a like persistency would have brought to him.
• As such, Crowe and Cavalcaselle themselves hesitate to put him forward, though they cling with great persistency to their pet theory of his influence.
• Her lamentations continued with a strange abundance, a strange persistency.
• If I went to the theater, church or concert, the call of that germ-ridden spot of the unholy name beat into my brain with the persistency of a tom-tom on a Chinese holiday.
• Fire and water wrought together in this work, if not always harmoniously, at least with equal force and persistency.
• She decided to look on the intruder as a lecturer on persistency and to gain inspiration from it.
• Or we may please ourselves by contrasting English persistency and harsh but not unjust dealing, with Dutch over-cautiousness and French carelessness and cruelty.
• This persistency was due to several causes, of which the first was the outbreak, early in 1864, of a curious superstition, the cult of the Hau-Haus.
• Ambition without persistency is but a dream or hope.
• He was discontented with himself and excited by the persistency with which the image of this woman haunted him.

Similar words containing PERSISTEN without suffix cy

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