pertinaciousness

pertinaciousness

English

Etymology

    From pertinacious + -ness.

    Noun

    pertinaciousness (uncountable)

    1. The state or characteristic of being pertinacious.
      • 1805, Charles Brockden Brown, Wieland; and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist, Penguin Classics, published 1991, →ISBN, page 289:
        I had too much experience of my father's pertinaciousness ever to hope for a change in his views.

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