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pertinaceously

pertinaceously is the alternative form of pertinaciously.

Meaning of pertinaciously

Adverb

pertinaciously (comparative more pertinaciously, superlative most pertinaciously)

  1. In a stubbornly resolute manner; tenaciously holding one's course of action or opinion.
    • Saint Augustine makes this difference betweene an heretike, and him that beleeves an heretike. The first begets or followes an errour pertinaciously.1601, William Barlow, A defence of the articles of the Protestants religion, Article 3, Answer, page 72

Forms of pertinaceously

comparativemore pertinaceously
superlativemost pertinaceously

Origin of pertinaceously

From pertinaceous + -ly.

Questions about pertinaceously

What is pertinaceously the alternative form of?
Pertinaceously is the alternative form of pertinaciously.

Words near pertinaceously in the dictionary

  1. Perthville
  2. perticular
  3. perticularly
  4. perticulars
  5. pertinaceous
  6. pertinaceously
  7. pertinacies
  8. pertinacious
  9. pertinaciously
  10. pertinaciousness
  11. pertinacities

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