perseverating
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /pəˈsɛvəɹeɪtɪŋ/
Verb
perseverating
- present participle of perseverate
Adjective
perseverating (comparative more perseverating, superlative most perseverating)
- Exhibiting perseveration; persisting, continuing.
- 2011, David Bellos, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?, Penguin 2012, p. 120:
- The uses in many Western languages of words meaning ‘word’ to refer to acts of speech are perseverating traces of primary orality.
- 2011, David Bellos, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?, Penguin 2012, p. 120: