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Meanings of pertinacity in English
Usage of pertinacity in English
1
There was something affecting in the pertinacity with which the good hearers.
2
Again and again his drooping spirits revived; his pertinacity had no bounds.
3
He set about the business with all the pertinacity of his nature.
4
The Food insisted on escaping with the pertinacity of a thing alive.
5
By pertinacity and vanity in lying, she hit the mark at last.
6
Her pertinacity in staying induced Mrs. Lisle to throw off all restraint.
7
At length the King's pertinacity yielded to the necessity of the case.
8
This plan once conceived, she adhered to it with pertinacity and skill.
9
He maintains these strange paradoxes and contradictions with a pertinacity quite surprising.
10
He looked at her with a smile of amusement at her pertinacity.
11
Will not the same pertinacity and precipitation endanger the better-theopposite cause?
12
Therefore pertinacity is not opposed to perseverance more than to other virtues.
13
But that mild and meek man had a certain strength of pertinacity.
14
He hunted up the evidence of Teddy's fate with a devoted pertinacity.
15
I'm but a bundle of points through the pertinacity of this flea!
16
Her pertinacity did me good in spite of the irritation it caused me.
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Translations for pertinacity
Portuguese
Pertinacity through the time
Pertinacity across language varieties
United Kingdom
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