Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Obstinate wilfulness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Obstinacy.
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- noun The property of being
headstrong ,stubbornness .
Etymologies
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Examples
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So are all giddy girls, when it is too late: and what a crest-fallen figure then do the consequences of their self-willed obstinacy and headstrongness compel them to make!
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Poor little dear! he has indeed a little sort of perverseness and headstrongness, as one may say, in his will: yet he is but a baby, and I hope to manage him pretty well; for he notices all I say, and every look of mine already. —
Pamela 2006
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This was the fault of Hampton, and due to his headstrongness, for the guides had protested that they did not know that side of the Châteauguay; but he had ordered them to proceed.
An Account of the Battle of Chateauguay Being a Lecture Delivered at Ormstown, March 8th, 1889 1905
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Even Black Maggie was not an animal like this; every motion was instinct with life and power, and not a little indication of headstrongness and irritability gave a great additional interest and excitement to the pleasure of managing him.
The Old Helmet 1864
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"And then Mamma excused herself as well as she could, and Mr. Carleton said, very seriously, that he knew there was a great element of headstrongness in your character; he had remarked it, he said, when you were arguing with Mr. Stackpole."
Queechy 1854
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"And then mamma excused herself as well as she could, and Mr. Carleton said, very seriously, that he knew there was a great element of headstrongness in your character; he had remarked it, he said, when you were arguing with Mr. Stackpole."
Queechy, Volume II Susan Warner 1852
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Even Black Maggie was not an animal like this; every motion was instinct with life and power, and not a little indication of headstrongness and irritability gave a great additional interest and excitement to the pleasure of managing him.
The Old Helmet, Volume I Susan Warner 1852
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-- So are all giddy girls, when it is too late: and what a crest-fallen figure then do the consequences of their self-willed obstinacy and headstrongness compel them to make!
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 Samuel Richardson 1725
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