Definition of "persistently" []

• In a persistent manner. (adverb)

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• "The fact was that Mrs. Strangeways largely entertained the _demi-monde_, to use in its true sense a term persistently misapplied."
• "• Change the No Child Left Behind law to let poor children in persistently struggling schools transfer to private schools."
• "But the operator has not lost his faith, and he calls persistently, to the very last minute, until the last light is gone and his apparatus is silenced forever."