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Webster 1828 Edition
Pertinaciously
PERTINA'CIOUSLY
,adv.
Definition 2024
pertinaciously
pertinaciously
English
Adverb
pertinaciously (comparative more pertinaciously, superlative most pertinaciously)
- In a stubbornly resolute manner; tenaciously holding one's opinion or course of action.
- 1601, William Barlow, A defence of the articles of the Protestants religion, Article 3, Answer, p. 72,
- Saint Augustine makes this difference betweene an heretike, and him that beleeves an heretike. The first begets or followes an errour pertinaciously.
- 1701, John LeClerc, The Harmony of the Evangelists, Samuel Buckley, London, p. 62,
- They shall therefore suffer punishment who reject this heavenly Light, and continue pertinaciously fix'd in those deadly principles which extinguish all knowledge of Virtue.
- 1873, Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, The Gilded Age, ch. 42,
- I work with might and main against his Immigration Bill—as pertinaciously and as vindictively, indeed, as he works against our University.
- 1952, Names Make News: Charlie Chaplin, Time, 29 Sep,
- If the great comedian wishes to stay here in the country whose citizenship he has so pertinaciously retained, he will be less harassed and very welcome.
- 2001, Waldemar Kowalski, "Converts to Catholicism and Reformed Franciscans in Early Modern Poland," Church History, vol. 70, no. 3 (Sep), p. 495,
- In Greater Poland (Wielkopolska) the middle class and part of the local gentry clung pertinaciously to Lutheranism.
- 1601, William Barlow, A defence of the articles of the Protestants religion, Article 3, Answer, p. 72,
Synonyms
Translations
in a stubbornly resolute manner
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References
- “pertinaciously” in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
- “pertinaciously” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.