Resolutely vs Pertinaciously - What's the difference?
resolutely | pertinaciously | Synonyms |
In a resolute manner.
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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,
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
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Adverb
(en adverb)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 willpertinaciously
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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.
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.
- In Greater Poland (Wielkopolska) the middle class and part of the local gentry clung pertinaciously to Lutheranism.