Preservation vs Pertinacious - What's the difference?
preservation | pertinacious |
The act of preserving; care to preserve; act of keeping from destruction, decay or any ill.
* William Shakespeare, Henry VIII
* Ecclesiastes. xxxiv. 16
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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.
As a noun preservation
is the act of preserving; care to preserve; act of keeping from destruction, decay or any ill.As an adjective pertinacious is
holding tenaciously to an opinion or purpose.preservation
English
Noun
(en noun)- Nature does not require''
''Her times of preservation, which, perforce''
''I give my tendence to
- The eyes of the Lord are upon them that love him, his is ther mighty protection, a preservation from stumbling, and a help from falling.
- Every seneseless thing by nature's light''
''Doth preservation seek, destruction shun
- Our allwise maker has put into man the uneasiness of hunger, thirst and other natural desires, to determine their wills for the preservation of themselves, and the continuation of their species.
