adamancy

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English

Noun

adamancy (usually uncountable, plural adamancies)

  1. The property of being adamant.
    • 1979 December 29, Andy Beck, “Parents of Gays”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 23, page 15:
      Knowing the stubbornness and adamancy of born-again Christians, they're more likely to write off Borhek off as "fallen," and accuse her of succumbing to the arguments of Satan.
    • 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 405:
      I stuck my nose in the air, realizing too late that it was a borrowed gesture – one I’d been using for years in moments of pride or adamancy – and that it properly belonged to the woman sitting opposite me.