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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

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • 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.
  • Synonyms

    * pertinaciousness, resolve, stubbornness, tenacity

    Anagrams

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    pertinaciously

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • 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 , , 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.

    Synonyms

    * doggedly, obstinately, persistently, resolutely, stubbornly, unyieldingly

    References

    * * * Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.