ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Pertinaciously

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ˌpɜː.təˈneɪ.ʃəs.li/ · Part of speech adverb

Quick meaning: Pertinaciously is an adverb meaning In a stubbornly resolute manner; tenaciously holding one's course of action or opinion.

Meaning

In a stubbornly resolute manner; tenaciously holding one's course of action or opinion.

Example Sentences

In Greater Poland (Wielkopolska) the middle class and part of the local gentry clung pertinaciously to Lutheranism.
I work with might and main against his Immigration Bill—as pertinaciously and as vindictively, indeed, as he works against our University.
Saint Augustine makes this difference betweene an heretike, and him that beleeves an heretike. The first begets or followes an errour pertinaciously.
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.

Synonyms for pertinaciously

Depending on context, synonyms include doggedly, obstinately, persistently, resolutely, stubbornly, unyieldingly.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pertinaceously, doggedly, tenaciously, obstinately, adamantly, pertinately.

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