different between obstinately vs pertinaciously
obstinately
English
Etymology
obstinate +? -ly
Adverb
obstinately (comparative more obstinately, superlative most obstinately)
- In an obstinate manner.
- He obstinately made his motion at every meeting, even though no one else ever supported it and everyone else was bored with it.
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pertinaciously
English
Etymology
From pertinacious +? -ly, from Latin pertin?x, from per- (“very”) + ten?x (“tenacious”), from tene? (“I hold”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p??.t??ne?.??s.li/
- (US) IPA(key): /?p??t?n?e???sli/
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, p. 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, The Harmony of the Evangelists, Samuel Buckley, London, p. 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, The Gilded Age, ch. 42,
- I work with might and main against his Immigration Bill—as pertinaciously and as vindictively, indeed, as he works against our University.
- 1952, Names Make News: Charlie Chaplin, Time, 29 Sep,
- 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.
- 2001, Waldemar Kowalski, "Converts to Catholicism and Reformed Franciscans in Early Modern Poland," Church History, vol. 70, no. 3 (Sep), p. 495,
- In Greater Poland (Wielkopolska) the middle class and part of the local gentry clung pertinaciously to Lutheranism.
- 1601, William Barlow, A defence of the articles of the Protestants religion, Article 3, Answer, p. 72,
Synonyms
- doggedly, obstinately, persistently, resolutely, stubbornly, unyieldingly
Related terms
- impertinence
- pertinacious
- pertinaciousness
- pertinacity
- pertinence
Translations
References
- Webster, Noah (1828) , “pertinaciously”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
- “pertinaciously” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
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