pertinacity

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pertinacity

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From Middle French pertinacité, from Old French pertinace (“obstinate, stubborn”).

noun pertinacities

uncountable, usually The state or characteristic of being pertinacious. Is it folly, or nonchalance, or philosophy, or pertinacity—or what is it in me, that, after all, when La Fleur had gone down stairs, and I was quite alone, I could not bring down my mind to think of it otherwise than I had then spoken of it to Eugenius?
Similar: pertinaciousness, resolve, stubbornness, tenacity

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noun state of being pertinacious

Português	teimosia, pertinácia
Français	ténacité, pertinacité
Русский	неусту́пчивость neustúpčivostʹ, упря́мство uprjámstvo

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@misc{pertinacity_2026,
  title = {pertinacity},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pertinacity},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}