0 present participle of persist
1 If an unpleasant feeling or situation persists, it continues to exist:
The cold weather is set to persist throughout the week.
Despite this accumulation of evidence, the government persisted in doing nothing.
An alternating pattern may result, for example, from a cyclic component with a period of about 2 days; persisting patterns may arise in several ways.
Those complex intangibles outside the content, those messy, obscure, but persisting traditions, forces, organizations, and social structures are harder to package.
The resulting picture is of an intellectual histoire immobile persisting into the mid-seventeenth century.