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doggedness|ˈdɒgɪdnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being dogged. †a. Malice, spitefulness, cruelty. Obs.
1530Palsgr. 214/2 Doggednesse, cruavlté. 1593Nashe Christ's T. 4 Their disloyaltie and doggednesse. 1647M. Hudson Div. Right Govt. i. ii. 5 Hazaels..fury and dogednesse unto them.
b. Ill temper, surliness, sullenness. Now, Sullen obstinacy; pertinacity. (Cf. dogged 2 c and 3.)
1611Cotgr., Rechignement, a powting, sullennesse, doggednesse. 1647Lilly Chr. Astrol. clxxvi. 746 Inclinable to..solitarinesse, pertinacy, and what in the vulgar English we call doggednesse. 1770Wesley Jrnl. 3 Feb. (1827) III. 376 He hides both his doggedness and his vanity. 1824Edin. Rev. XL. 85 A patient and persevering doggedness of understanding in contending with difficulties. 1877A. B. Edwards Up Nile v. 113 Our sailors, by dint of sheer doggedness, get us round the bad corner at last. |