pertinacious
adjective
holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
pertinaciously
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a word derived from
pertinacious.
Example Sentences
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“Miss Eyre, I repeat it, you can leave me. How often am I to say the same thing? Why do you remain pertinaciously perched on my knee, when I have given you notice to quit?”
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
She praised me much, defended me pertinaciously, and, right or wrong, embraced my opinions.
From Discipline by Mary Brunton
Ellis's words returned to her again and again so pertinaciously, that she could not break from them.
From Home Influence A Tale for Mothers and Daughters by Grace Aguilar
And, if ill-trained, how pertinaciously it will refuse to do anything it ought!
From Household Education by Harriet Martineau
The son of this nobleman, however, pursued far different maxims, and pertinaciously clung to the douceurs and infamy of office; for infamous it most certainly was, to practice measures his own sentiments condemned.
From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Lady Anne Hamilton
