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Resolutely vs Pertinaciously - What's the difference?

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Pertinaciously is a synonym of resolutely.



As adverbs the difference between resolutely and pertinaciously

is that resolutely is in a resolute manner while pertinaciously is in a stubbornly resolute manner; tenaciously holding one's opinion or course of action.

resolutely

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • In a resolute manner.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=September 28 , author=Jon Smith , title=Valencia 1 - 1 Chelsea , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=It was no less than Valencia deserved after dominating possession in the final 20 minutes although Chelsea defended resolutely and restricted the Spanish side to shooting from long range.}}

    Synonyms

    * determinedly, willfully, with a will

    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.