pervicaciousness
English
Etymology
pervicacious + -ness
Noun
pervicaciousness (uncountable)
- The quality of being pervicacious.
- 1692, Richard Bentley, Eight Sermons Preach'd at the Honourable Robert Boyle's Lecture
- It is pervicaciousness to deny, that he created matter also.
- 1692, Richard Bentley, Eight Sermons Preach'd at the Honourable Robert Boyle's Lecture
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pervicaciousness under pervicacious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)