Meanings of great pertinacity in English

N. Whitely, the opponent of these extensions have urged with great pertinacity that the inventions are not novel.

Richard slept very well, and was attending to the business of sleeping with great pertinacity, when the reveille sounded at six o'clock in the morning.

These various offences were urged against the Jews with great pertinacity by their enemies, and the sovereigns were importuned to adopt a more rigorous policy.

But (rejoined Socrates) Antisthenes is a man of great pertinacity, who insists on winning, and that is a very necessary quality in a general.

He accordingly enticed him with the greatest pertinacity and hid him away with the greatest cunning.

Disciples, such as the Irish are, will stick with greater pertinacity to absurdities and nonsense than to reason and common sense.

This arouses them, and they then track the enemy with the greatest pertinacity; when half-killed, they drag it ashore and dispatch it amid loud execrations.

"Let not a blight be thrown over all our hopes," he exclaimed, "by too great pertinacity on either side.