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/ˌpɜː.təˈneɪ.ʃəs.li/ · adverb
In a stubbornly resolute manner; tenaciously holding one's course of action or opinion..
Saint Augustine makes this difference betweene an heretike, and him that beleeves an heretike. The first begets or followes an errour pertinaciously.
They shall therefore suffer punishment who reject this heavenly Light, and continue pertinaciously fix'd in those deadly principles which extinguish all knowledge of Virtue.
No astronomical fallacy is more untenable, and none has been more pertinaciously adhered to, than that of the absolute illimitation of the Universe of Stars.
I work with might and main against his Immigration Bill—as pertinaciously and as vindictively, indeed, as he works against our University.
If the great comedian [Charlie Chaplin] wishes to stay here in the country whose citizenship he has so pertinaciously retained, he will be less harassed and very welcome.
In Greater Poland (Wielkopolska) the middle class and part of the local gentry clung pertinaciously to Lutheranism.
Use pertinaciously when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Pertinaciously means In a stubbornly resolute manner; tenaciously holding one's course of action or opinion..
Common synonyms include doggedly, obstinately, persistently, resolutely.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Saint Augustine makes this difference betweene an heretike, and him that beleeves an heretike. The first begets or followes an errour pertinaciously.
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