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pertinacity

noun

Etymology

From Middle French pertinacité, from Old French pertinace (“obstinate, stubborn”).

  1. derived from pertinace — “obstinate, stubborn”
  2. derived from pertinacité

Definitions

  1. The state or characteristic of being pertinacious.

    • 1846, Edgar Allen Poe, The Black Cat With my aversion to this cat, however, its partiality for myself seemed to increase. It followed my footsteps with a pertinacity which it would be difficult to make the reader comprehend.
    • Again and again, however, and half a dozen other agains, with the inexorable pertinacity of a child intent upon some object important to itself, did he renew his efforts for admittance.

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