Pertinacity vs Pertinaciously - What's the difference?
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The state or characteristic of being pertinacious.
*1846 , E.A.Poe,
*:With my aversion to this cat, however, its partiality for myself seemed to increase. It followed my footsteps with a pertinacity which it would be difficult to make the reader comprehend.
*1851 , , The House of Seven Gables , ch. 19:
*:Again and again, however, and half a dozen other agains, with the inexorable pertinacity of a child intent upon some object important to itself, did he renew his efforts for admittance.
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,
Pertinacity is a related term of pertinaciously.
As a noun pertinacity
is the state or characteristic of being pertinacious.As an adverb pertinaciously is
in a stubbornly resolute manner; tenaciously holding one's opinion or course of action.pertinacity
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Noun
(en-noun)Synonyms
* pertinaciousness, resolve, stubbornness, tenacityAnagrams
*pertinaciously
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Adverb
(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.
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- 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.