abide vs perseverate

abide

verb
  • To endure without yielding; to withstand. 

  • Used in a phrasal verb: abide by (“to accept and act in accordance with”). 

  • To pay for; to stand the consequences of. 

  • To bear patiently. 

perseverate

verb
  • To persist in doing something; to continue to repeat an action after the original stimulus has ended. 

  • To cause the perseveration of (a given reflex or response). 

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