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Russian
Etymology
From це́пк(ий) (cépk(ij)) + -ость (-ostʹ).
Pronunciation
Noun
це́пкость • (cépkostʹ) f inan (genitive це́пкости, nominative plural це́пкости, genitive plural це́пкостей)
- persistence, tenaciousness
1869, Лев Толстой , “Том 2, Часть вторая, X”, in Война и мир; English translation from Aylmer and Louise Maude, transl., War and Peace, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1922–1923:Пьер не име́л той практи́ческой це́пкости, кото́рая бы дала́ ему́ возмо́жность непосре́дственно взя́ться за де́ло, и потому́ он не люби́л его́ и то́лько стара́лся притвори́ться пе́ред управля́ющим, что он за́нят де́лом.- Pʹjer ne imél toj praktíčeskoj cépkosti, kotóraja by dalá jemú vozmóžnostʹ neposrédstvenno vzjátʹsja za délo, i potomú on ne ljubíl jevó i tólʹko starálsja pritvorítʹsja péred upravljájuščim, što on zánjat délom.
- Pierre had none of the practical persistence that would have enabled him to attend to the business himself and so he disliked it and only tried to pretend to the steward that he was attending to it.
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