pertinaciously
English
WOTD – 9 July 2007
Etymology
From pertinacious + -ly, from Latin pertināx, from per- (“very”) + tenāx (“tenacious”), from teneō (“I hold”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌpɜː.təˈneɪ.ʃəs.li/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌpɝːtənˈeɪʃəsli/
Audio (US) (file)
Adverb
pertinaciously (comparative more pertinaciously, superlative most pertinaciously)
- In a stubbornly resolute manner; tenaciously holding one's opinion or course of action.
- 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, Samuel Buckley, editor, 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.
- 1873, Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, “chapter 42”, in The Gilded Age:
- I work with might and main against his Immigration Bill—as pertinaciously and as vindictively, indeed, as he works against our University.
- 29 September 1952, “Archived copy”, in Names Make News: Charlie Chaplin, archived from the original on 25 November 2010, retrieved 6 September 2021:
- If the great comedian 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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Synonyms
- doggedly, obstinately, persistently, resolutely, stubbornly, unyieldingly
Related terms
- impertinence
- pertinacious
- pertinaciousness
- pertinacity
- pertinence
Translations
in a stubbornly resolute manner
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References
- pertinaciously in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
- “pertinaciously”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.