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 obstinacy ['ɑbstənəsɪ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
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    obstinacy
    [ noun ]
    1. the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome

    2. <noun.attribute>
    3. resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires

    4. <noun.attribute>


    Obstinacy \Ob"sti*na*cy\, n. [See {Obstinate}.]
    1. A fixedness in will, opinion, or resolution that can not
    be shaken at all, or only with great difficulty; firm and
    usually unreasonable adherence to an opinion, purpose, or
    system; unyielding disposition; stubborness; pertinacity;
    persistency; contumacy.

    You do not well in obstinacy
    To cavil in the course of this contract. --Shak.

    To shelter their ignorance, or obstinacy, under the
    obscurity of their terms. --Locke.

    2. The quality or state of being difficult to remedy,
    relieve, or subdue; as, the obstinacy of a disease or
    evil.

    Syn: Pertinacity; firmness; resoluteness; inflexibility;
    persistency; stubbornness; perverseness; contumacy.

    Usage: {Obstinacy}, {Pertinacity}. Pertinacity denotes great
    firmness in holding to a thing, aim, etc. Obstinacy is
    great firmness in holding out against persuasion,
    attack, etc. The former consists in adherence, the
    latter in resistance. An opinion is advocated with
    pertinacity or defended with obstinacy. Pertinacity is
    often used in a good sense; obstinacy generally in a
    bad one. ``In this reply was included a very gross
    mistake, and if with pertinacity maintained, a capital
    error.'' --Sir T. Browne. ``Every degree of obstinacy
    in youth is one step to rebellion.'' --South.

    1. How did she reach the top? "Sheer bloody obstinacy," she says, and a teacher named Mr. Burton.
    2. The pilots called Mr. Wolf "Ice Man" for his obstinacy on the contract issues.
    3. "The worst thing that could happen would be that the government continue in its obstinacy," said Jean Kaspar, national secretary of the Socialist-run French Democratic Confederation of Labor.
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