pertinacity
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French pertinacité, from Old French pertinace (“obstinate, stubborn”).
Noun[edit]
pertinacity (usually uncountable, plural pertinacities)
- The state or characteristic of being pertinacious.
- 1846, E.A.Poe, The Black Cat
- With my aversion to this cat, however, its partiality for myself seemed to increase. It followed my footsteps with a pertinacity which it would be difficult to make the reader comprehend.
- 1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields:
- Again and again, however, and half a dozen other agains, with the inexorable pertinacity of a child intent upon some object important to itself, did he renew his efforts for admittance.
- 1846, E.A.Poe, The Black Cat
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
state of being pertinacious
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