All 7 Uses of
obstinate
in
Great Expectations
- One black ox, with a white cravat on,—who even had to my awakened conscience something of a clerical air,—fixed me so obstinately with his eyes, and moved his blunt head round in such an accusatory manner as I moved round, that I blubbered out to him, "I couldn't help it, sir!†
Chpt 3
- But I felt myself so unequal to the performance that I gave it up, and stood looking at Miss Havisham in what I suppose she took for a dogged manner, inasmuch as she said, when we had taken a good look at each other,— "Are you sullen and obstinate?"†
Chpt 8
- Whitewash on the forehead hardens the brain into a state of obstinacy perhaps.†
Chpt 9
- Anyhow, with whitewash from the wall on my forehead, my obstinacy was adamantine.†
Chpt 9
- He pretended that his Christian name was Dolge,—a clear Impossibility,—but he was a fellow of that obstinate disposition that I believe him to have been the prey of no delusion in this particular, but wilfully to have imposed that name upon the village as an affront to its understanding.†
Chpt 15
- not looking at her, but obstinately looking at the opposite side of the room,
Chpt 26 *obstinately = stubbornly
- For this reason, I suppose, they were now inflexible with one another; Mr. Jaggers being highly dictatorial, and Wemmick obstinately justifying himself whenever there was the smallest point in abeyance for a moment.†
Chpt 51
Definition:
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(obstinate) stubbornly not doing what others want