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Definition of Stiff-necked
1. Adjective. Haughtily stubborn. "A stiff-necked old Boston brahmin"
Definition of Stiff-necked
1. Adjective. Stubborn and arrogant. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stiff-necked
Literary usage of Stiff-necked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1889)
"A stiff-necked GENERATION.— CONCLUSION. CHAPTER XXXVI.—LADY JULIA'S LITTLE PLAN.
" I delight in the tender passions, and would befriend all under their ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1888)
"A stiff-necked GENERATION. CHAPTER VI.—ROSAMUND AS A CONTRAST. " Art she had
none, yet wanted mine, For Nature did that want supply : S<• . rich in ..."
3. An Historical Account of the Plantation in Ulster at the Commencement of the by George Hill (1877)
"stiff-necked people to oppose themselves against and to hinder the free passage
thereof, the word of removing and transplanting being to the natives as ..."
4. Eastern Proverbs and Emblems Illustrating Old Truths by James Long (1881)
"Sanskrit.—They know not their own defects who search for the defects of others.
stiff-necked.—Ps. 75. 5. The Jews were called a stiff-necked people, Acts 7. ..."
5. The Historical Relations of Medicine and Surgery to the End of the Sixteenth by Thomas Clifford Allbutt (1905)
"... those stiff- necked enemies of peace, for a familiarity with the lacerations
of war, was Botallo, whose treatise on gunshot wounds, an excellent and ..."
6. The Historical Relations of Medicine and Surgery to the End of the Sixteenth by Thomas Clifford Allbutt (1905)
"A still greater surgeon who had to thank the Popes, those stiff- necked enemies
of peace, for a familiarity with the lacerations of war, was Botallo, ..."
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