doggednessn.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 214/2 Doggednesse, cruavlté.

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 4 Their disloyaltie and doggednesse.

1607 G. Markham Cavelarice ii. vii. 85 Diuers horses when they are corrected for any fault, and especially with the spurre, will shake their heads, which is a signe of much malitious doggednesse, and desire of reuenge.

1647 M. Hudson Divine Right Govt. i. ii. 5 Hazaels..fury and dogednesse unto them.

1592 G. Babington Certaine Comfortable Notes Genesis (xxix.) f.116^v Doggednes and currishnes graceth neyther countrey nor people.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Rechignement, a powting, sullennesse, doggednesse.

1647 W. Lilly Christian Astrol. clxxvi. 746 Inclinable to..solitarinesse, pertinacy, and what in the vulgar English we call doggednesse.

1683 J. Collinges Intercourses Divine Love (new ed.) 838 Grace takes away that currishness and doggedness, which makes men rugged in their speeches and behaviour, and churlish in their spirits.

?1730 Cupid's Decoy (ed. 3) vi. 63 He may as well talk to a Post, for she'll Answer him nothing. The Devil of Doggedness is got into her Stomach.

1770 J. Wesley Jrnl. 3 Feb. (1790) XV. 83 He hides both his doggedness and vanity a little better.

1824 Edinb. Rev. 40 85 A patient and persevering doggedness of understanding in contending with difficulties.

1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile v. 113 Our sailors, by dint of sheer doggedness, get us round the bad corner at last.

1914 W. S. Blunt Fand a Féerie i. in Poet. Wks. II. 309 They have the thing we lack, The doggedness of will, to stand with a stiff back Against all odds of fear.

1943 J. D. Carr Emperor's Snuff-Box xvii. 174 ‘Look here,’ began Uncle Ben... There was a frown on his face, and a mild doggedness in his manner.

1993 N.Y. Times Mag. 12 Sept. 42/1 Parts of his personality—his doggedness, his insistence that the logic of an idea be proved..—make Dinkins a better, more conscientious Mayor.