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obstinacy|ˈɒbstɪnəsɪ| [ad. med.L. obstinātia (Du Cange), f. obstināt-us obstinate: see -acy.] 1. The quality or condition of being obstinate; inflexibility of temper or purpose; pertinacity, obduracy, stubbornness; persistency. Rarely in neutral or good sense.
1390Gower Conf. II. 117 He hath with him Obstinacie. c1491Chast. Goddes Chyld. 46 Some haue fallen in to obstynacy whiche men haue ben so harde of hert that of malice they will not be repentaunte. 1555Eden Decades 19 The cause wherof was..theyr owne obstinacie and frowardnes. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 23 In this desperat conflict, fought with wonderful obstinacie of mind, many fel on both sides. 1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. i. §25 Obstinacy in a bad cause, is but constancy in a good. 1769Robertson Chas. V, xi. Wks. 1826 IV. 367 [He] adhered to his own opinion with his usual obstinacy. 1872Darwin Emotions ix. 238 The habitual and firm closure of the mouth would thus come to show decision of character; and decision readily passes into obstinacy. b. with an and pl. An act or instance of this.
1628Wither Brit. Rememb. v. 1788 Their obstinacies, and in all their sin. 1651Hobbes Leviath. iv. xlvii. 383 They induce simple men into an obstinacy against the Laws. 1840Carlyle Heroes vi. (1872) 60/1 Cromwell's..Speech..to his third Parliament, in similar rebuke for their pedantries and obstinacies. 2. Of a disease: Stubborn or unyielding nature; continued resistance to treatment.
1808Med. Jrnl. XIX. 183 This has been partly owing to the obstinacy of the disease. |