PERTINACIOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pertinaciously mean? 

• PERTINACIOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb PERTINACIOUSLY has 1 sense:

1. in a dogged and pertinacious manner

  Familiarity information: PERTINACIOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERTINACIOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a dogged and pertinacious manner

Context example:

he struggled pertinaciously for the new resolution

Pertainym:

pertinacious (stubbornly unyielding)

 Context examples 

Why do you remain pertinaciously perched on my knee, when I have given you notice to quit?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Thomas Mugridge, so strangely and pertinaciously clinging to life, was soon limping about again and performing his double duties of cook and cabin-boy.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The words, Fred is a good fellow, but not at all the man I fancied you would ever like, and Laurie's face when he uttered them, kept returning to her as pertinaciously as her own did when she said in look, if not in words, I shall marry for money.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Even when dislodged, he still kept the letter in his mouth; and on my endeavouring to take it from him, at the imminent risk of being bitten, he kept it between his teeth so pertinaciously as to suffer himself to be held suspended in the air by means of the document.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And somewhat relieved by this idea (which I failed not to execute that day), I ventured once more to meet my master's and lover's eye, which most pertinaciously sought mine, though I averted both face and gaze.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)