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Meanings of pertinacity in inglês

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tenacidade
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pertinacia

Persistent determination.

      tenacidade
      Usage of pertinacity in inglês
      1
      There was something affecting in the pertinacity with which the good hearers.
      The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 / A Maga...
      2
      Again and again his drooping spirits revived; his pertinacity had no bounds.
      The Mysteries of All Nations / Rise and Progress of Superstition...
      3
      He set about the business with all the pertinacity of his nature.
      Queen Victoria
      4
      The Food insisted on escaping with the pertinacity of a thing alive.
      The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth
      5
      By pertinacity and vanity in lying, she hit the mark at last.
      The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 / A Magazin...
      6
      Her pertinacity in staying induced Mrs. Lisle to throw off all restraint.
      Hubert's Wife / A Story for You
      7
      At length the King's pertinacity yielded to the necessity of the case.
      Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1
      8
      This plan once conceived, she adhered to it with pertinacity and skill.
      A Woman-Hater
      9
      He maintains these strange paradoxes and contradictions with a pertinacity quite surprising.
      Famous Reviews, Selected and Edited with Introductory Notes by R...
      10
      He looked at her with a smile of amusement at her pertinacity.
      The Sheik: A Novel
      11
      Will not the same pertinacity and precipitation endanger the better-theopposite cause?
      Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 2.
      12
      Therefore pertinacity is not opposed to perseverance more than to other virtues.
      Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) / Translated by ...
      13
      But that mild and meek man had a certain strength of pertinacity.
      Within the Law: From the Play of Bayard Veiller
      14
      He hunted up the evidence of Teddy's fate with a devoted pertinacity.
      Mr. Britling Sees It Through
      15
      I'm but a bundle of points through the pertinacity of this flea!
      Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
      16
      Her pertinacity did me good in spite of the irritation it caused me.
      The Doctor's Dilemma
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