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ng persistent; staying or continuing quality; hence, in an unfavorable sense, doggedness; obstinacy.

Holding or adhering to any opinion, purpose, or design, with obstinacy; perversely persistent; obstinate; as, pertinacious plotters; a pertinacious beggar.

The quality or state of being pertinacious; obstinacy; perseverance; persistency. Macaulay.

Obstinacy; pervicaciousness. [Obs.] Bentley.

you speak. Pope. He no sooner saw that her eye glistened and her cheek reddened than his obstinacy was at once subbued. Sir W. SCott.

One's own will, esp. when opposed to that of others; obstinacy.

Obstinacy. Sir W. Scott.

The quality or state of being set; formality; obstinacy. "The starched setness of a sententious writer." R. Masters.

foe began to stickle. Hudibras. While for paltry punk they roar and stickle. Dryden. The obstinacy with which he stickles for the wrong. Hazlitt.

Violence of temper; anger; sullenness; resentment; willful obstinacy; stubbornness. [Obs.] Stern was his look, and full of stomach vain. Spenser. This sort of crying proceeding from pride, obstinacy, and stomach, the will, where the fault lies, must be bent. Locke.

Tenaciousness; obstinacy. [Obs.] Barrow.

inately against denial or contradiction; also, to contend or argue against (another) with obstinacy; to chide; as, he threaped me down that it was so. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Burns.

d yet, as though he knew it not, His knowledge winks, and lets his humors reign. Herbert. Obstinacy can not be winked at, but must be subdued. Locke.