obstinacy
noun
the quality or state of being obstinate; stubbornness.
obstinacies
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pluralof obstinacy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
He was full of tricks and contradictions, obstinacies and tendernesses, this Punch-like old gentleman with the head of Shakespeare.
From The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel by Coningsby Dawson
He was very much of a boy at heart, despite his forty odd years, and the quaint obstinacies of his gardener amused him too much to call for any serious remonstrance.
From God's Good Man by Marie Corelli
You know there are obstinacies in the world as well as mortalities, and thereto appertaining.
From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon
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
