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pertinacity|pɜːtɪˈnæsɪtɪ|
[a. F. pertinacité (1419 in Godef.), ad. L. type *pertinācitās (perh. in med.L. for pertinācia), in mod.It. pertinacità (cf. L. tenācia and tenācitās), f. L. pertināc-em: see pertinace.]
The quality of being pertinacious; resolute or stubborn adherence, as to an opinion, purpose, design, course of action, etc.; persistency; usually in a bad sense: perverse obstinacy or stubbornness; evil persistence.
1504W. Atkynson tr. De Imitatione i. ix. 159 It is a synne of pertynacite & pryde. 1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1862) 179 Thomas Becket..having by froward disobedience and stubborne pertinacitie, provoked King Henrie the Seconde to indignation against him. c1620Moryson Itin. iv. v. iv. (1903) 482 The mere Irish..haue singular and obstinate pertinacity in retayning their old manners and Customes. 1639N. N. tr. Du Bosq's Compl. Woman ii. 9 Constancy is but for good things, pertinacity for the bad. 1759Johnson Idler No. 55 ⁋3, I have collected materials with indefatigable pertinacity. a1832Mackintosh Rev. of 1688, Wks. 1846 II. 87 The pertinacity of the heretic. 1845S. Austin Ranke's Hist. Ref. iv. i. II. 343 The imperialists carried on the siege of Marseilles with great pertinacity. 1880Haughton Phys. Geog. iii. 118 The propriety of the term is shewn by the pertinacity with which the lines AA and CC cling to the water and avoid the land. |