commitment vs persistence

commitment

noun
  • The trait of sincerity and focused purpose. 

  • The act of being locked away, such as in an institution for the mentally ill or in jail. 

  • The act of sending a legislative bill to committee for review. 

  • State of being pledged or engaged. 

  • Official consignment sending a person to prison or a mental health institution. 

  • Promise or agreement to do something in the future, especially 

  • Being bound emotionally or intellectually to a course of action or to another person or persons. 

  • Perpetration as in a crime or mistake. 

  • Act of assuming a financial obligation at a future date. 

persistence

noun
  • The property of being persistent. 

  • Continuation of the previous day's weather (particularly temperature and precipitation statistics). 

  • The number of times an operation can be iteratively applied to a number before it reaches a permanently constant state. 

  • Of data, the property of continuing to exist after the termination of the program. 

How often have the words commitment and persistence occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )