Meanings
- uncountableThe state or characteristic of being pertinacious.
I had too much experience of my father's pertinaciousness ever to hope for a change in his views.
1805, Charles Brockden Brown, Wieland; and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist, Penguin Classics, published 1991, →ISBN, page 289Synonyms: pertinacity
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe state or characteristic of being pertinacious.
Origin
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