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pertinaciously

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14 lettersPronunciation /ˌpɜː.təˈneɪ.ʃəs.li/Part of speech adverbSorted aceiilnoprstuyStarts with PEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. in a dogged and pertinacious manner

Word origin

From pertinacious + -ly, from Latin pertināx, from per- (“very”) + tenāx (“tenacious”), from teneō (“to hold”).

Used in a sentence

  • Saint Augustine makes this difference betweene an heretike, and him that beleeves an heretike. The first begets or followes an errour pertinaciously.
  • 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.
  • No astronomical fallacy is more untenable, and none has been more pertinaciously adhered to, than that of the absolute illimitation of the Universe of Stars.

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