pervicacity

English

Noun

pervicacity (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) obstinacy; pervicaciousness
   • 1911, Edward Tyas Cook, The Life of John Ruskin:

     Pervicacity of humour, of tastes, of character is one of the most marked features in the life of Ruskin

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pervicacity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)