Pertinacity is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PERTINACITY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the quality of holding unyieldingly to a position
• The quality or state of being pertinacious; obstinacy; perseverance; persistency.
• persistent determination
• the quality of being pertinacious; persistence.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• adhering resolutely to an opinion, purpose, or design; perversely persistent

Words related to PERTINACITY

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How to use PERTINACITY in a sentence

• And yet, such is the pertinacity of human curiosity, that, at last, my chief desire was but to discover what lay beyond that gloomy entrance.
• We returned to Haynthorpe, my father being now in a very precarious state of health, Henshaw followed us with a pertinacity that was almost devilish.
• A scene of this nature did not fail to shake the pertinacity of those who stood at watch near the gate.
• Bennington, with the heavier pertinacity of men when they have struck a congenial vein, tried to repeat to some extent the experience of the last afternoon at the rock.
• Misfortune seems to have followed him through life, with the insatiable pertinacity of the Nemesis of a Greek tragedy.
• There was something affecting in the pertinacity with which the good Doctor persevered in saying his say to his discouraging minority of hearers.
• The Food insisted on escaping with the pertinacity of a thing alive.
• Swift MacNeill has been rewarded for his pertinacity by extracting a promise from Mr.
• This exorbitant claim, which she with much pertinacity adhered to, so offended the two other sovereigns that they came near fighting about the division of the spoil.
• Never has Fortune taken greater delight in her bitter and insolent game, never displayed a greater pertinacity in the derision of men.
• In fine Miss Travers showed a keen feminine ingenuity and pertinacity in persecution worthy of a nobler motive.
• She was seldom certain about her facts, and when she happened to be so, had not sufficient pertinacity or confidence to push her advantage.
• Let him who conceives high hopes from the progress of knowledge and the pertinacity of thought tame and subdue his pride by considering, for a moment, the game of chess.
• I felt that I must finish this task before I lay down, and there was another intention to which I clung with a painful pertinacity of mind.
• He has pertinacity, and he insists upon being heard.
• With courteous pertinacity and a fitting show of anger, he got the supplies he needed.
• At length, though the pertinacity of the woman was astonishing, when exhausted by blows, she lay fainting on the ground, the man went his way.
• I have collected materials with indefatigable pertinacity.
• He set about the business with all the pertinacity of his nature.
• Probably he was reading, for on rare occasions when he read a novel he would stick to the book with surprising pertinacity.
• It was here that a police constable turned his lantern upon me with a pertinacity that apparently was calculated to challenge observation.
• They had not shown sufficient pertinacity in their inquiries.
• For I was persuaded that whatever the nature of their opinions might be, their pertinacity and inflexible obstinacy ought certainly to be punished.
• Sir John was rich, and had besides the confident pertinacity of success.
• Disciples, such as the Irish are, will stick with greater pertinacity to absurdities and nonsense than to reason and common sense.
• He was struck by the solemnity as well as the pertinacity of these wedding-bells as he entered the church.
• I remarked that when the bargain was concluded, he insisted with great pertinacity that part of the payment should be in Spanish dollars.
• Perhaps it is not all fate, since Colonel Lionel has recently crossed the States coming from India, and seems to pursue Lady Ruth with singular pertinacity.
• Nevertheless he hung on with patience and pertinacity.
• With equal pertinacity, Douglas and his supporters advocated the right of the people in their territorial status, to mould their institutions as they chose.
• The new territory added to the dominion of Georgia was acquired mainly through the energy and pertinacity of George M.

Similar words containing PERTINAC without suffix ity

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