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Definition of Obstinately

1. Adverb. In a stubborn unregenerate manner. "She remained stubbornly in the same position"

Definition of Obstinately

1. Adverb. In an obstinate manner. ¹

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Definition of Obstinately

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Obstinately

Literary usage of Obstinately

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

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"In the Council of Vienne (1311) it was declared that if any person obstinately maintained that there was no sin in the practice of demanding interest, ..."

2. A Practical Treatise on the Criminal Law: Comprising the Practice, Pleadings by Joseph Chitty (1819)
"... before king in parliament, 460 judge's order to hang convict for, near the spot where murder juror's oath to try whether prisoner stands obstinately, ..."

3. The Concise Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen, George Smith, Harold F. Oxbury (1885)
"These memoirs show, along with much learning, a strong tendency to paradox—eg Adams obstinately refused to believe that the sounds of the fœtal heart could ..."

4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"... who were obstinately devoted to the religion of their fathers, refused to admit this foreign deity within the walls of their ••¡ties.38 But the ..."

5. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"... small portion of the fruit which they will naturally set. of which Bosc may be named as a prominent case, are obstinately unsuccessful upon the quince, ..."

6. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"... and obstinately consisteth, that if by statical im- " The Globe of the Earth consisteth by a ..."

7. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1841)
"... between prince and subject, father and child, master and servant, husband and wife ; and that they who maintain them obstinately, are fitter to live in ..."

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