Sentence example with the word 'pertinacity'

pertinacity

application, constancy, exigency, hardihood, inflexible will, obstinacy, pertinaciousness, resoluteness, spunkiness, strongheadness, unremittingness

Definition n. persistent determination

Last update: May 5, 2017


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This ignorance of the very nature of science leads to under-estimation of the elemental force which science possesses; for only thus can we explain the pertinacity with which Ultramontanism, even at the present day, strives to subject her work to its own censorship and control.   [Please select]

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Oldbuck's pertinacity, it is decisive of the question.   [Please select]

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The Sparrow-hawk which measures from twelve to fifteen inches long is a terror to smaller birds, showing great pertinacity in their pursuit.   [Please select]

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Poor Louis held out against the solicitations of the people about him with a pertinacity which he seldom showed in greater matters.   [Please select]

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_--Many instances might be mentioned of the pertinacity with which this animal pursues his revenge.   [Please select]

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Lovel," replied the young lady, "by your--I would not willingly use a strong word--your romantic and hopeless pertinacity.   [Please select]

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Had she not, moreover, helped him on several occasions when creditors displayed an incomprehensibly foolish pertinacity regarding payment for goods supplied.   [Please select]

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From 1801 to 1808 England's navy and English privateers pursued both French and Spanish ships with dogged pertinacity.   [Please select]

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Perth objected to changing his clothing with a pertinacity which provoked the boatswain.   [Please select]

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That it was the duty of a representative to support an application from a resident of his district, was a doctrine enforced by claim agents with a pertinacity from which there was no escape.   [Please select]

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I could put a stop to the protestations of the many; I should like nothing better--but the pertinacity of the one.   [Please select]

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