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Persevered
- verb - be persistent, refuse to stop; "he persisted to call me every night"; "The child persisted and kept asking questions"
Perseveres
- verb - be persistent, refuse to stop; "he persisted to call me every night"; "The child persisted and kept asking questions"
Perversely
- adverb - deliberately deviant; "his perversely erotic notions"
- in a contrary disobedient manner
Perversion
- noun - a curve that reverses the direction of something; "the tendrils of the plant exhibited perversion"; "perversion also shows up in kinky telephone cords"
- an aberrant sexual practice;
- the action of perverting something (turning it to a wrong use); "it was a perversion of justice"
Perversity
- noun - deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline
- deliberately deviating from what is good; "there will always be a few people who, through macho perversity, gain satisfaction from bullying and terrorism"
Perversive
- adjective - tending to corrupt or pervert
Perverting
- verb - change the inherent purpose or function of something; "Don't abuse the system"; "The director of the factory misused the funds intended for the health care of his workers"
- corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals"
- practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive; "Don't twist my words"
Pesterment
- - The act of pestering, or the state of being pestered; vexation; worry.
Petrescent
- - Petrifying; converting into stone; as, petrescent water.
Peucedanin
- - A tasteless white crystalline substance, extracted from the roots of the sulphurwort (Peucedanum), masterwort (Imperatoria), and other related plants; -- called also imperatorin.