obstinacy
noun
the quality or state of being obstinate; stubbornness.
obstinacies
-
pluralof obstinacy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
The play itself is full of the standard details and recognitions pf marriage: its conversational small change and domestic small changes, its emotional freezing and boiling points, male obstinacies and female whims.
From Time Magazine Archive
I have my obstinacies as mulish as other people's.
From The Mountebank by William John Locke
Tricks, peculation, obstinacies, vanities--after this war men will still be men.
From What is Coming? by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
She spoke softly, for she had already fully perceived that Mr. Critchlow must be managed with the tact which the capricious obstinacies of advanced age demanded.
From The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett
He has been used to overcoming the obstinacies of Nature; the human obstinacies of his new task intrigue him.
From Out To Win The Story of America in France by Coningsby Dawson
