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