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adjective

Obstinate adj.

Pertinaciously adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course; persistent; not yielding to reason, arguments, or other means; stubborn; pertinacious; usually implying unreasonableness. "I have known great cures done by obstinate resolution of drinking no wine." "No ass so meek, no ass so obstinate." "Of sense and outward things."

Not yielding; not easily subdued or removed; as, obstinate fever; obstinate obstructions.

Synonyms: Stubborn; inflexible; immovable; firm; pertinacious; persistent; headstrong; opinionated; unyielding; refractory; contumacious. See Stubborn.

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Etymology of 'Obstinate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... "Obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds ...

— India: What can it teach us? - A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge • F. Max Mueller

... also secure and proud enough against the pious bishops and Christians. Yea, when he was punished for his error by his bishop, and admonished to desist, he became the more obstinate. He complained about the bitter persecution to which he was subjected. But his suffering was that they would not approve his horrible blasphemy. Just so in every age the heretics and blasphemers, yea, even open ...

— Epistle Sermons, Vol. III - Trinity Sunday to Advent • Martin Luther

... almost beside herself with grief and consternation. It was such an inexplicable piece of obstinacy on Ger's part, and he was not usually obstinate. ...

— The Ffolliots of Redmarley • L. Allen Harker

... Tom," broke in his wife; "you mustn't scold the childer so. I'm no fonder nor you of the teetottallers, but childer will not be driven. Come, Sammul—come, Betty, you mustn't be obstinate; you know fayther means what ...

— Frank Oldfield - Lost and Found • T.P. Wilson

... were silenced in two of the prows, only the chief's maintaining an obstinate fire. This vessel would have been much sooner silenced, no doubt, but for the ferocity of Pungarin. When his men, driven at last by the deadly fire of the assailants, forsook a gun and sought refuge behind the matting, the pirate-chief would promptly ...

— Under the Waves - Diving in Deep Waters • R M Ballantyne

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