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In natural English speech, "pertinacious" appears in contexts such as: "and subject them to the Cross of Christ he therefore sent among them a number of pertinaciously what most people assert thus the facts were justly doubted by platina on the legitimate grounds that they rested unpopular gossip and not". Listen to the exact timestamped clip in the accompanying video with synchronized subtitles.

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and subject them to the Cross of Christ he therefore sent among them a number of

pertinaciously what most people assert thus the facts were justly doubted by platina on the legitimate grounds that they rested unpopular gossip and not

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adjective

Holding tenaciously to an opinion or purpose.

“When that divine took his leave, not a little discomfited and amazed at the pertinacious obstinacy of the women, Laura repeated her embraces and arguments with tenfold fervour to Helen, who felt that there was a great deal of cogency in most of the latter.”

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Stubbornly resolute or tenacious.

“[O]ne of the Dissenters, which I could, but forbear, to name appeared to Dr. Sanderson to be so bold, so troublesome, and so illogical in the dispute, as forced patient Dr. Sanderson, who was then Bishop of Lincoln, and a moderator with other Bishops, to say, with an unusual earnestness, "That he had never met with a man of more pertinacious confidence, and less abilities, in all his conversation."”

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