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Definition of Obstinacy |
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Obstinacy
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. The quality or state of being difficult to remedy, relieve, or subdue; as, the obstinacy of a disease or evil. Related Definitions: Adherence, All, An, And, As, At, Be, Being, Can, Contumacy, Difficult, Difficulty, Disease, Disposition, Evil, Firm, Fixedness, Great, In, Not, Obstinacy, Of, Only, Opinion, Or, Persistency, Pertinacity, Purpose, Quality, Relieve, Remedy, Resolution, Shaken, State, Subdue, System, That, The, To, Unreasonable, Will, With |
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Obstinacy Quotations
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. Arthur Schopenhauer The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. Henry Ward Beecher The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity. Harriet Beecher Stowe Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. Robert Peel One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy. Man Ray Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good. Thomas Browne May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors. Michael Servetus 'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one. Laurence Stern |
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Obstinacy Translations
obstinacy in French is obstination obstinacy in German is Eigensinn, Sturheit, Eigensinns obstinacy in Italian is cocciutaggine obstinacy in Latin is pertinacia obstinacy in Swedish is envishet, trots |
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