Resolute vs Pertinaciously - What's the difference?
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Firm, unyielding, determined.
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(obsolete) Convinced; satisfied; sure.
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,
As an adjective resolute
is firm, unyielding, determined.As an adverb pertinaciously is
in a stubbornly resolute manner; tenaciously holding one's opinion or course of action.resolute
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- She was resolute in her determination to resist his romantic advances.
- He was resolute in his decision to stay.
- Edward is at hand, / Ready to fight; therefore be resolute .
- If the Coward Bumble Bee / In his chimney corner stay, / I, must resoluter be!
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Usage notes
* The one-word comparative form resoluter and superlative form resolutest are both well attested, though not as common as the two-word forms “more resolute” and “most resolute”.Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* irresolutepertinaciously
English
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.