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pertinaciously

adv
/ˌpɜː.təˈneɪ.ʃəs.li/UK/ˌpɝːtənˈeɪʃəsli/US

Etymology

From pertinacious + -ly, from Latin pertināx, from per- (“very”) + tenāx (“tenacious”), from teneō (“to hold”).

  1. derived from pertinax
  2. derived from pertinace
  3. suffixed as pertinaciously — “pertinacious + ly”

Definitions

  1. In a stubbornly resolute manner

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

    • 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.
    • No astronomical fallacy is more untenable, and none has been more pertinaciously adhered to, than that of the absolute illimitation of the Universe of Stars.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA