pertinaciously
/ˌpɝːtənˈeɪʃəsli/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a stubbornly resolute manner; tenaciously holding one's course of action or opinion.
Example Sentences
- "Saint Augustine makes this difference betweene an heretike, and him that beleeves an heretike. The first begets or followes an errour pertinaciously."
- "They shall therefore suffer punishment who reject this heavenly Light, and continue pertinaciously fix'd in those deadly principles which extinguish all knowledge of Virtue."
- "No astronomical fallacy is more untenable, and none has been more pertinaciously adhered to, than that of the absolute illimitation of the Universe of Stars."
- "I work with might and main against his Immigration Bill—as pertinaciously and as vindictively, indeed, as he works against our University."
- "If the great comedian [Charlie Chaplin] wishes to stay here in the country whose citizenship he has so pertinaciously retained, he will be less harassed and very welcome."
- "In Greater Poland (Wielkopolska) the middle class and part of the local gentry clung pertinaciously to Lutheranism."
Etymology
From pertinacious + -ly, from Latin pertināx, from per- (“very”) + tenāx (“tenacious”), from teneō (“to hold”).
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌpɝːtənˈeɪʃəsli/
- British English: /ˌpɜː.təˈneɪ.ʃəs.li/
Inflected Forms
more pertinaciously (comparative)
most pertinaciously (superlative)