pigheadedness

Call it my pigheadedness if you like; I can't very well object to anything you call me; but I won't come.

Yes—for the love of principle—let us celebrate this pious pigheadedness.

Bixler had none of the bluntness, the pigheadedness, the brutality of this—but then, there was no comparing the two.

You know, Underhill, confidence and pigheadedness are not even connected by marriage; much less are they blood relations.

I have convicted you of error at least half a dozen times, and not to confess it is mere pigheadedness.