Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being dogged; stubbornness; firm or sullen determination or obstinacy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Sullenness; moroseness.
- noun Sullen or obstinate determination; grim resolution or persistence.
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- noun The state of being
dogged ;persistence ;perseverance ;tenacity ;stubbornness . - noun obsolete
Sullenness ;moroseness .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun persistent determination
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Examples
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And America is about nothing, if not about a certain doggedness against long odds.
Waldo Jaquith - Galveston mayor responds to Weed mailer. 2006
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In the rest of my life, this kind of doggedness often annoys people who want me to let go of some issue.
Archive 2006-08-01 Susan Palwick 2006
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He answers quietly, but with the noble doggedness which is the reason why we write this chapter in his life.
Echoes of the War 1898
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With his head pressed down on the bare polished wood of his desk, he hurled himself mentally at an earth of adamant and a heaven of brass, hurled himself ferociously, repeatedly, with a kind of doggedness, as though he would either break them down or dash his own soul to pieces.
The Street Called Straight Basil King 1893
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"As for mademoiselle's having had the opportunity and yet not having done so," Blaise went on, with a kind of doggedness, "the spy was not to plan the ambush until the governor should arrive at Clochonne."
An Enemy to the King Robert Neilson Stephens 1886
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He was, indeed, deeply and warmly affectionate, but troublesome through outbreaks of will and temper, showing all the ordinary instinct of trying how far the authorities for the time being will endure resistance; sufficiently indolent of mind to use his excellent abilities to save exertion of intellect; passionate to kicking and screaming pitch, and at times showing the doggedness which is such a trial of patience to the parent.
Life of John Coleridge Patteson Yonge, Charlotte M 1873
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There was the temper of the Norfolk fox-hunter in the "doggedness" which Marlborough noted as his characteristic, in the burly self-confidence which declared
History of the English People, Volume VII (of 8) The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 John Richard Green 1860
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Perez point to search as the one market where the company's "doggedness" has failed to pay off.
unknown title 2009
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Rebecca NicholsonFor most of the near decade that British troops have been fighting in Afghanistan, the focus of their war has been Helmand, a region famous even among Afghans for the hostility of its terrain and the doggedness of its people.
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You admire her integrity and doggedness and you hope she gets the personal part right.
Lorraine Devon Wilke: How The Killing Is Saving Television Lorraine Devon Wilke 2011
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