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ˈstrongˈheaded, a.
1. Headstrong.
1603Florio Montaigne ii. vi. 216 One of my men..mounted vpon a yong strong-headed horse. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. iii, This young warmhearted, strongheaded and wrongheaded Herr Towgood. 1915W. P. Livingstone Mary Slessor iii. x. 83 They commiserated a Mother who was so strongheaded and wilful.
2. Endowed with strong intellectual faculties.
1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vii. II. 222 Penn had never been a strongheaded man.
Hence ˌstrongˈheadedness, obstinacy.
1793Sir M. Eden in Ld. Auckland's Corr. (1862) III. 145 Their repeated losses were owing to their own strongheadedness in remaining scattered, against all advice, in small corps. 1862Bagehot Lit. Stud. (1895) II. 250 Nature requites itself for the strongheadedness of several generations by the weakness of one. 1880Baring-Gould Mehalah xxi. (1884) 296 You will give way in the end—your weakness will yield to his strongheadedness. |