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pervicacious, a.|pɜːvɪˈkeɪʃəs|
[f. L. pervicāx, -cāc-em stubborn, headstrong (f. root pervic- of pervincĕre to carry one's point, maintain one's opinion, f. per- 1 + vincĕre to conquer, prevail against) + -ious.]
Very obstinate or stubborn; headstrong, wilful; refractory.
1633Ames Agst Cerem. ii. 93 Pervicatious contending, without reason and measure. 1672H. Stubbe Justif. Dutch War 66 The Dutch..grew more pervicacious in opposition to His Majesties Officers. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) I. 167 One of the most pervicacious young creatures that ever was heard of. 1853G. J. Cayley Las Alforjas II. 174 The pursuit of pervicacious donkeys who diverged into the green barley. 1973Daily Tel. 16 Apr. 13/4 Are audiences the only thing wrong with the theatre?.. At once funky and firm, a pervicacious horde of floating voters, they rush confidently to support the worst candidate on offer. 1973N.Y. Law Jrnl. 7 Aug. 4 The language of the bureaucrats and administrators must needs be recognized as an outgrowth of legal parlance. There is no other way to explain its pervading, pervicacious and pernicious meanderings. 1978W. M. Spackman Armful of Warm Girl 37 Must she like a pervicacious angel think that because he loved her with every beat of his heart, [etc.].
Hence perviˈcaciously adv.; perviˈcaciousness.
1650Charleton Paradoxes 83 The phansy of an Animal pervicaciously surviving death, is impressed not onely upon the blood: but also [etc.]. 1692Bentley Boyle Lect. vi, But if God hath actually created those intelligent substances..'tis pervicaciousness to deny that he created matter also. 1822T. Taylor Apuleius, Golden Ass ii. xx. 35 This man being confused by the pervicaciousness of all those who were looking at him. |