perseverance

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.

   It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.

2. 2
   noun

   the act of persisting or persevering

3. 3
   noun

   persistent determination

Etymology

From Middle English perseveraunce, from Old French perseverance, from Latin persevērantia.