Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The property or character of being stiff-necked; stubbornness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being stiff-necked; stubbornness.
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Examples
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I know the stiff-neckedness of those Spanish tubs.
Westward Ho! 2007
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If Nora had not been self-willed and stiff-necked beyond the usual self-willedness and stiff-neckedness of young women she might have been herself the mistress of Monkhams.
He Knew He Was Right 2004
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She saw only a silly stiff-neckedness which observed facts but smiled and refused to look them in the face.
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996
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She saw only a silly stiff-neckedness which observed facts but smiled and refused to look them in the face.
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996
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She saw only a silly stiff-neckedness which observed facts but smiled and refused to look them in the face.
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996
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She saw only a silly stiff-neckedness which observed facts but smiled and refused to look them in the face.
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996
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She saw only a silly stiff-neckedness which observed facts but smiled and refused to look them in the face.
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996
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She seemed afraid his stiff-neckedness would persist.
Starfishers Cook, Glen 1982
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But she answered, may it please your Grace, he is no such man to do that, for all that he can do is only to-follow his own round-head-like stiff-neckedness, and e'en nothing else.
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh
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"She's fooled us to the limit of our special bent, and I take it that's stiff-neckedness!"
The Winds of the World Talbot Mundy 1909
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