tenaciouslyadv.
/tɪˈneɪʃəsli/ In a tenacious manner; with a strong hold; persistently, steadfastly, stubbornly.
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the mind > will > decision > perseverance or persistence > [adverb]
blevindeliche1340
perseverantly1340
assiduallya1400
unwearily1434
importunately1483
assiduately1490
importunably?1504
importunely?1504
industriously1572
indefatigably1586
perseveringly1611
unweariably1612
infatigably1652
unweariedly1653
tenaciouslya1667
persistingly1748
doggedly1791
dogfully1827
unwearyingly1835
persistively1847
persistently1852
untiredly1855
unflaggingly1858
untiringly1862
unsleepingly1877
the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [adverb]
stoutly1303
a-strut1330
sturdilyc1374
obstinately1395
throa1400
pertinacelyc1425
stubbornlyc1430
pertinatelyc1475
stiffneckedlya1555
peremptorilya1575
pertinaciouslya1614
tenaciouslya1667
mulishly1795
stupidly1866
dourly1871
bloody-mindedly1962
a1667 Bp. J. Taylor Serm. for Year (1841) III. i. 352/2 To resent an error deeply,..to remember it tenaciously, to repeat it frequently.
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) 250 Ocellus Lucanus..tenaciously asserted the Eternity of the World.
1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. I. ii. 111 Columbus adhered tenaciously to his original opinion.
1808 W. Scott in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Sir W. Scott (1837) I. i. 37 My memory..seldom failed to preserve most tenaciously a favourite passage of poetry.
1882 A. W. Ward Dickens i. 16 It is not surprising that..the name should have clung to him so tenaciously.
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