Pertinacious vs Obdurate - What's the difference?
pertinacious | obdurate |
Holding tenaciously to an opinion or purpose.
* 1884', , "The Path of Duty" in ''The English Illustrated Magazine'' ' 2 (15): 240–256.
*:He would really have to make up his mind to care for his wife or not to care for her. What would Lady Vandeleur say to one alternative, and what would little Joscelind say to the other? That is what it was to have a pertinacious father and to be an accommodating son.
Stubbornly resolute or tenacious.
Stubbornly persistent, generally in wrongdoing; refusing to reform or repent.
* Hooker
* Shakespeare
* 1818 , ,"The Revolt of Islam", canto 4, stanza 9, lines 1486-7:
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(obsolete) Physically hardened, toughened.
As adjectives the difference between pertinacious and obdurate
is that pertinacious is holding tenaciously to an opinion or purpose while obdurate is stubbornly persistent, generally in wrongdoing; refusing to reform or repent.pertinacious
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(en adjective)Synonyms
* See alsoobdurate
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The very custom of evil makes the heart obdurate against whatsoever instructions to the contrary.
- Art thou obdurate , flinty, hard as steel, / Nay, more than flint, for stone at rain relenteth?
- But custom maketh blind and obdurate
- The loftiest hearts.
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