Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Pervicaciousness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Pervicacity.
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- noun obsolete
pervicacity
Etymologies
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Latin pervicacia.
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Examples
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Your mother will have me do so, that you may be destitute of all defence, if you persist in your pervicacy.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Your mother will have me do so, that you may be destitute of all defence, if you persist in your pervicacy.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 Samuel Richardson 1725
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