stubbornness
(ˈstʌbənnɪs)
[f. stubborn a. + -ness.]
The quality of being stubborn.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 475/1 Styburnesse, austeritas, ferocitas. 1467–8 Rolls of Parlt. V. 621/2 Because of the gretnesse and stobournesse of the same Wolle. 1530 Palsgr. 277/2 Stubbernesse, contumace. 1535 Coverdale Jer. xiii. 17 Yf ye wil not heare me..I will mourne fro my whole herte for youre stubburnesse. a 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. V, 56 b. Some for their stony stubbernes and mad obstinacy were adjudged to dye. 1600 Shakes. A.Y.L. ii. i. 19 Happy is your Grace That can translate the stubbornnesse of fortune Into so quiet and so sweet a stile. 1680 Moxon Mech. Exerc. x. 190 A thick String..having a strength and stubbornness proportionable to its size, it will not comply closely to a piece of Work of small Diameter. 1700 Dryden To J. Dryden 185 Patriots, in Peace, assert the Peoples Right, With noble Stubbornness resisting Might. 1757 Home Douglas iii. 31 Hard he seems And old in villainy. Permit us try His stubbornness against the torture's force. 1874 Green Short Hist. iv. §1. 162 The Prince [Llewelyn] held out in Snowdon with the stubbornness of despair. 1878 Lecky Eng. in 18th C. II. vii. 402 They were endowed with a full share of Scotch stubbornness, jealousy and self-assertion. |