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Meanings of pertinacity in English
Synonyms
Examples for "persistence"
Examples for "persistence"
1
In these young people, I see Madiba's example of persistence and hope.
2
The try captured the match in a moment, power and persistence prevailing.
3
When expressing interest in a company, I believe persistence is the key.
4
Therefore, cccDNA is responsible for the establishment of viral infection and persistence.
5
When City took the lead they had David Silva's persistence to thank.
1
He said it morphed into a story about family, tragedy and perseverance.
2
Colleagues and opponents alike paid tribute to his ability, perseverance and courage.
3
A leader without courage, resilience, optimism, curiosity,and perseverance will simply not last.
4
A divine perseverance in love was in the heart of her being.
5
Courage and perseverance under persecution; or, Grace shining in difficulties and trials.
1
Governments need to understand the tenacity of relatives involved in such tragedies.
2
Footwork, power and tenacity are all essential, but they're nothing without control.
3
The question was whether Huddersfield could find precision to complement their tenacity.
4
Her tenacity, her ability to improve every time, just to keep improving.
5
He held her gaze in the grasp of his with implacable tenacity.
1
But even greater persistency should be exercised in destroying the underground portion.
2
The rain drummed on the glass roof with a hopeless, slow persistency.
3
He sat down to the literary task with uncommon vigour and persistency.
4
She ticks off questions with the steady persistency of an eight-day clock.
5
He too had been annoyed at the persistency of her double refusal.
1
His very doggedness blocked his progress; Quraite's guardian responded to livelier spirits'.
2
The tone of her voice was almost fierce in its abrupt doggedness.
3
It was a personal reminder of the importance of doggedness in football.
4
Noel proceeded with a hint of that doggedness that characterized them both.
5
To all of which I attended with automatic regularity, with listless doggedness.
1
He clung to that certainty with a tenaciousness born of near-despair.
2
Dallmeier grunted as though no longer surprised at her tenaciousness.
3
Prodigies of valour, audacity, and tenaciousness were displayed by the citizens in these wars.
4
The Cardinal had all the Italian vivacity and impatience; Don Louis all the Spanish phlegm and tenaciousness.
5
Chopin's lack of tenaciousness is visible here.
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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