pertinacious

pertinacious englannista suomeksi

1. jääräpäinen

pertinacious englanniksi

1. Holding tenaciously to an opinion or purpose.

2. (RQ:Thackeray Pendennis)

3. {{quote-journal|en|year=1884|author=Henry James|title=The Path of Duty|journal=The English Illustrated Magazine|section=2(15): 240-256

4. (RQ:Haggard She)

5. Stubbornly resolute or tenacious.

6. 1678, (w), ''The life of Dr. Sanderson, late Bishop of Lincoln'' (London: Printed for Richard Marriot) pagination or secitons:

One of the Dissenters, which I could, but forbear, to name appeared to Dr. Sanderson to be so bold, so troublesome, and so illogical in the dispute, as forced patient Dr. Sanderson, who was then Bishop of Lincoln, and a moderator with other Bishops, to say, with an unusual earnestness, "That he had never met with a man of more pertinacious confidence, and less abilities, in all his conversation."