persever

• IPA^(key): /pə(ɹ)ˈsɛvə(ɹ)/

persever (third-person singular simple present persevers, present participle persevering, simple past and past participle persevered)

1. Obsolete form of persevere.
   • c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vii]:

     Instruct my daughter how she shall persever,
     That time and place with this deceit so lawful
     May prove coherent.

   • 1633, George Herbert, "Heaven", The English Poems of George Herbert. C. A. Patrides, ed. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1974. Repr. 1991. 191

     Light, joy, and leisure; but shall they persever?
     Echo. Ever.

• “persever”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• perverse, preserve