TENACIOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tenaciously mean? 

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

1. with obstinate determination

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TENACIOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With obstinate determination

Synonyms:

doggedly; tenaciously

Context example:

he pursued her doggedly

Pertainym:

tenacious (stubbornly unyielding)

 Context examples 

Don't cling so tenaciously to ties of the flesh; save your constancy and ardour for an adequate cause; forbear to waste them on trite transient objects.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It is remarkable, that Emma, in the many, very many, points of view in which she was now beginning to consider Donwell Abbey, was never struck with any sense of injury to her nephew Henry, whose rights as heir-expectant had formerly been so tenaciously regarded.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The young ladies of Highbury might have walked again in safety before their panic began, and the whole history dwindled soon into a matter of little importance but to Emma and her nephews:—in her imagination it maintained its ground, and Henry and John were still asking every day for the story of Harriet and the gipsies, and still tenaciously setting her right if she varied in the slightest particular from the original recital.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)