ever-present vs persistent

ever-present

adj
  • Always present; always there 

noun
  • An athlete who is present in every contest. 

persistent

adj
  • Indefinitely continuous. 

  • Of data or a data structure: not transient or temporary, but remaining in existence after the termination of the program that creates it. 

  • Describing a fractal process that has a positive Brown function 

  • Lasting past maturity without falling off. 

  • non-transient. 

  • Obstinately refusing to give up or let go. 

  • Insistently repetitive. 

How often have the words ever-present and persistent occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )