persistency

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"Persistency," he remarked, "seems the only recourse when past friendship and common courtesy are ignored."

From Ben Blair The Story of a Plainsman by Lillibridge, Will

SUBJECT.—My subject is Persistency in doing wrong, because you have begun wrong.

From The Village Pulpit, Volume II. Trinity to Advent A Complete Course of 66 Short Sermons, or Full Sermon Outlines for Each Sunday, and Some Chief Holy Days of the Christian Year by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

SUBJECT.—This same Pride urges us to something else, Persistency in maintaining that on which we have determined, even after we know it is unwise.

From The Village Pulpit, Volume II. Trinity to Advent A Complete Course of 66 Short Sermons, or Full Sermon Outlines for Each Sunday, and Some Chief Holy Days of the Christian Year by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

Persistency is here a jewel indeed and only the persistent win out.

From Health Through Will Power by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

Persistency so inveterate as this led to a result which Mr. Gracedieu's cautious daughter had not perhaps contemplated: it put me on my guard.

From The Legacy of Cain by Collins, Wilkie