Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Very obstinate; stubborn; wilfully contrary or refractory; wilful.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Obstinate; willful; refractory.
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- adjective
stubborn ,willful ,obstinate ,refractory
Etymologies
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Latin pervicax
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Examples
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May they be efficacious upon the mind of one of the most pervicacious young creatures that ever was heard of!
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Of late, I am told by shopkeepers, the tin box with the pervicacious cover is becoming popular; but I remain true to my sponge in a bottle: for, unlike the leopard, I am able to change my spots.
The Perfect Gentleman Ralph Bergengren 1909
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May they be efficacious upon the mind of one of the most pervicacious young creatures that ever was heard of!
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 Samuel Richardson 1725
yarb commented on the word pervicacious
"Nicholas instantly resumed, demanding of Mrs. Barclay with amazed innocence other women other women must she be like a pervicacious angel think that because he loved her with every beat of his heart, love and had loved, as she herself well remembered and in this house should remember best of all..."
- W.M. Spackman, An Armful of Warm Girl
December 22, 2011
qms commented on the word pervicacious
A man whose beliefs are fallacious
Can err without being mendacious,
But rise in defiance
Of that vile alliance
Of knowing men still pervicacious.
April 15, 2019