Citations:pertinaciously


 * 1601, William Barlow, A defence of the articles of the Protestants religion, Article 3, Answer, p. 72,
 * Saint Augustine makes this difference betweene an heretike, and him that beleeves an heretike. The first begets or followes an errour pertinaciously.
 * 1701, John LeClerc, The Harmony of the Evangelists, Samuel Buckley, London, p. 62,
 * They shall therefore suffer punishment who reject this heavenly Light, and continue pertinaciously fix'd in those deadly principles which extinguish all knowledge of Virtue.
 * 1787, Robert Burns, "The Brigs of Ayr," notation,
 * The banks of Garpal Water is one of the few places in the West of Scotland, where those fancy-scaring beings, known by the name of Ghaists, still continue pertinaciously to inhabit.
 * 1873, Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, The Gilded Age, ch. 42,
 * I work with might and main against his Immigration Bill—as pertinaciously and as vindictively, indeed, as he works against our University.
 * 1952, Names Make News: Charlie Chaplin, Time, 29 Sep,
 * If the great comedian wishes to stay here in the country whose citizenship he has so pertinaciously retained, he will be less harassed and very welcome.
 * 2001, Waldemar Kowalski, "Converts to Catholicism and Reformed Franciscans in Early Modern Poland," Church History, vol. 70, no. 3 (Sep), p. 495,
 * In Greater Poland (Wielkopolska) the middle class and part of the local gentry clung pertinaciously to Lutheranism.