pertinaciousness

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"Posterity," said Burke, "will bless the pertinaciousness of that day."

From The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration by Poole, Reginald Lane

For how gently and meekly doth he here pass over Thomas his unhandsome expression, finding that Thomas spake here, not out of obstinacy and pertinaciousness, but out of ignorance and a mistake.

From Christ: The Way, the Truth, and the Life by Brown, John (of Wamphray)

But, even then, in that moment of seeming frustration, Durkin's subterranean yet terrible pertinaciousness, his unparaded bull-dog indefatigability, glowed and burned at its brightest.

From Phantom Wires A Novel by Brown, Arthur William

Addictedness to our own judgments and opinions, which causeth pertinaciousness, pride, and conceit, as thinking ourselves so wise, as that we need no information; and this occasioneth a self-confidence.

From Christ: The Way, the Truth, and the Life by Brown, John (of Wamphray)

"Mark will do as I bid him," she said, with a na�ve and pertinaciousness that was wholly irresistible.

From Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea by Ingraham, Jonathon Holt