Pertinacious vs Pertinaciously - What's the difference?
pertinacious | pertinaciously |
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.
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,
* 1701 , John LeClerc, The Harmony of the Evangelists , Samuel Buckley, London, p. 62,
* 1873 , , The Gilded Age , ch. 42,
* 1952 ,
* 2001 , Waldemar Kowalski, "Converts to Catholicism and Reformed Franciscans in Early Modern Poland," Church History , vol. 70, no. 3 (Sep), p. 495,
Pertinacious is a related term of pertinaciously.
As an adjective pertinacious
is holding tenaciously to an opinion or purpose.As an adverb pertinaciously is
in a stubbornly resolute manner; tenaciously holding one's opinion or course of action.pertinacious
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* See alsopertinaciously
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(en adverb)- Saint Augustine makes this difference betweene an heretike, and him that beleeves an heretike. The first begets or followes an errour pertinaciously .
- 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.
- I work with might and main against his Immigration Bill—as pertinaciously and as vindictively, indeed, as he works against our University.
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.
- In Greater Poland (Wielkopolska) the middle class and part of the local gentry clung pertinaciously to Lutheranism.
