Obstinacy is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for OBSTINACY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• stubbornness
• the quality or condition of being obstinate; stubbornness
• state or quality of being obstinate
• A fixedness in will, opinion, or resolution that can not be shaken at all, or only with great difficulty; firm and usually unreasonable adherence to an opinion, purpose, or system; unyielding disposition; stubborness; pertinacity; persistency; contumacy.
• The quality or state of being difficult to remedy, relieve, or subdue; as, the obstinacy of a disease or evil.
• the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome
• resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the quality or state of being obstinat; stubbornness; the quality or state of being difficult to remedy, relieve, or subdue

Words related to OBSTINACY

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How to use OBSTINACY in a sentence

• In this sweet and solemn mood he reviewed his late action calmly, and felt ashamed of himself for his vanity and for the obstinacy which had followed it.
• This screw, as I was then informed, was applied by way of punishment, in case of obstinacy in the slaves, or for any other reputed offence, at the discretion of the captain.
• But the obstinacy of the king of England was phenomenal, and his ministers were infatuated.
• This giant labor of men, this obstinacy in living, is their excuse, is redemption.
• Josephine insisted on a romantic attachment, and pursued a visionary spouse with all the ardor and obstinacy of first-rate stupidity.
• With respect to what I have hitherto said, your pride and obstinacy forced me to speak.
• Besides the obstinacy of the nurse, I had the ignorance of physicians to contend with.
• At the same time his habits, which were pensive and gloomy, led him to meditate a variety of schemes to punish her obstinacy.
• The contest was made with equal obstinacy and bitterness in the Northern and the Southern States.
• They will be fought out differently, with lesser frequency, with an increased bitterness and the savage tooth- and-claw obstinacy of a struggle for existence.
• Yet, with all this, she had scarcely a tincture of obstinacy.
• The city of Munster being an object of importance, was disputed with great obstinacy.
• Henry, highly provoked that she should presume to differ from him, complained of her obstinacy to Gardiner, who gladly laid hold of the opportunity to inflame the quarrel.
• The difficulties encountered in performing this task arose from the obstinacy of the Dutch monarch.
• Even yet he had time to get to shore but, with his usual obstinacy, he held on.
• The old peaceful quiet days were gone, for age and obstinacy had met youth and the arrogance of youth, and it was to be battle.
• This method of argument was too forcible even for the obstinacy of Alfonso.
• Vanity is satisfied with mere show, but obstinacy rests upon the enjoyment of the thing.
• Never assault was made with greater fury nor sustained with greater obstinacy.
• Gourlay died abroad, and his daughters on his death received the money which he rejected with the obstinacy so characteristic of his life.
• Obstinacy will be shown in the length of line from the point of chin to the crown of head and in the rigidity of the joints of the hands and fingers.
• They were wondering whether such rare phenomena were the result of passion, obstinacy, or affection.
• The obstinacy with which matter and form are detected everywhere dates from the introduction of the Aristotelian tenets into theology in the thirteenth century.
• Such a course would have won him the love and esteem of the Indians, and his blind obstinacy was certainly the surest means he could have taken to gain their ill will.
• How even on this very day another woman was remembering, and was fighting a fight, pride and obstinacy opposed to fear and loneliness and weariness of soul.
• Never let mere pride or obstinacy stand in the way of bowing to the storm.
• There was much in it of the inexorable obstinacy of the Puritan faith.

Similar words containing OBSTINA without suffix cy

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