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Pertinaciously

//ˌpɜː.təˈneɪ.ʃəs.li// adv

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a stubbornly resolute manner; tenaciously holding one's course of action or opinion.

    "Saint Augustine makes this difference betweene an heretike, and him that beleeves an heretike. The first begets or followes an errour pertinaciously."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a dogged and pertinacious manner wordnet

Etymology

From pertinacious + -ly, from Latin pertināx, from per- (“very”) + tenāx (“tenacious”), from teneō (“I hold”).

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