decision vs persistence

decision

noun
  • The act of deciding. 

  • A result arrived at by the judges when there is no clear winner at the end of the contest. 

  • Firmness of conviction. 

  • A choice or judgement. 

  • A win or a loss awarded to a pitcher. 

verb
  • To defeat an opponent by a decision of the judges, rather than by a knockout 

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 decision and persistence occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )