All 3 Uses of
pertinacious
in
Wuthering Heights
- …her brother shut himself up among books that he never opened — wearying, I guessed, with a continual vague expectation that Catherine, repenting her conduct, would come of her own accord to ask pardon, and seek a reconciliation — and SHE fasted pertinaciously, under the idea, probably, that at every meal Edgar was ready to choke for her absence, and pride alone held him from running to cast himself at her feet; I went about my household duties, convinced that the Grange had but one…†
Chpt 12
- Whatever I did, that idea would bother me: it was so tiresomely pertinacious that I resolved on requesting leave to go to Wuthering Heights, and assist in the last duties to the dead.†
Chpt 17 *
- I couldn't affirm that you are,' observed my young lady, wondering at his pertinacious assertion of what was evidently an untruth.†
Chpt 26
Definition:
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(pertinacious) stubbornly unyielding