Definition of Pertinaciously

1. Adverb. In a dogged and pertinacious manner. "He struggled pertinaciously for the new resolution"

Partainyms: Pertinacious

Definition of Pertinaciously

1. Adverb. In a stubbornly resolute manner; tenaciously holding one's opinion or course of action. ¹

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Definition of Pertinaciously

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pertinaciously

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pertaking
pertechnetate
pertechnetates
perter
pertest
perthio-
perthiocyanic acid
perthiocyanogen
perthite
perthites
perthitic
perticular
perticularly
pertinacious
pertinaciously (current term)
pertinaciousness
pertinacities
pertinacity
pertinant
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pertinence
pertinences
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pertly

Literary usage of Pertinaciously

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Lancet (1842)
"DEFENCE OF THE PAYMENT FOR MEDICAL REPLIES BY THE LIFE- ASSURANCE COMPANIES, the assurance companies so pertinaciously insist on having a report from the ..."

2. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"Each professor seemed pertinaciously to exact that the peculiar usages of his church should be adopted. —T. Flint, ' Recollections,' p. 112. ..."

3. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England: Together with an by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1849)
"... would be made on either side as would be pertinaciously insisted on by them who made them ; it being the course, in all affairs of this nature, ..."

4. Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor by Walter Savage Landor (1856)
"... hangs pertinaciously about the image we adore. The largest heart, O Cleone, is that which only one can rest upon or impress; the purest is that which ..."

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