pertinaciously

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Etymology

From pertinacious +‎ -ly, from Latin pertināx, from per- (very) + tenāx (tenacious), from teneō (I hold).

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Adverb

pertinaciously (comparative more pertinaciously, superlative most pertinaciously)

  1. In a stubbornly resolute manner; tenaciously holding one's course of action or opinion.
    Synonyms: doggedly, obstinately, persistently, resolutely, stubbornly, unyieldingly
    • 1601, William Barlow, A defence of the articles of the Protestants religion, Article 3, Answer, page 72:
      Saint Augustine makes this difference betweene an heretike, and him that beleeves an heretike. The first begets or followes an errour pertinaciously.
    • 1701, John LeClerc, edited by Samuel Buckley, The Harmony of the Evangelists, London, page 62:
      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.
    • 1848 March, Edgar A Poe, Eureka: A Prose Poem, New York, N.Y.: Geo P Putnam, of late firm of “Wiley & Putnam,” , →OCLC, page 100:
      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.
    • 1873, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], Charles Dudley Warner, chapter XLII, in The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, published 1874, →OCLC:
      I work with might and main against his Immigration Bill—as pertinaciously and as vindictively, indeed, as he works against our University.
    • 1952 September 29, “Names Make News: Charlie Chaplin”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2010-11-25:
      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.
    • September 2001, Waldemar Kowalski, “Converts to Catholicism and Reformed Franciscans in Early Modern Poland”, in Church History, volume 70, number 3, page 495:
      In Greater Poland (Wielkopolska) the middle class and part of the local gentry clung pertinaciously to Lutheranism.

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