doggedness

[daw-gid-nis, dog-id-]

noun

1. persistence in effort; tenacity or perseverance.

   It was the team captain’s doggedness and never-say-die approach that helped us qualify for the Olympics.

Word History and Origins

Origin of doggedness¹

dogged ¹ ( def. ) + -ness ( def. )

Example Sentences

Rangers deserve credit for their doggedness in a crisis - and that's pretty much all you can say about a game that will scarcely see out the night in the memory bank.

From BBC

Powell's doggedness around interest rates has made him an enemy in the Oval Office.

From Salon

The memoir displays Dunthorne’s gift for wry understatement and his doggedness as a researcher: he dug through archives, toted around a Geiger counter and even cooked food that his great-grandfather once consumed.

From Los Angeles Times

Lee pursued stories and investigations with a doggedness in the South and later on the West Coast, revealing poverty and corruption in small towns in West Virginia and misuse of taxpayer dollars in Sacramento.

From Los Angeles Times

That is not only a mark of her determination, doggedness and competitiveness, but also quite the turnaround from Rio eight years ago.

From BBC