All 6 Uses of
tenacious
in
Middlemarch
- On other subjects indeed Mr. Casaubon showed a tenacity of occupation and an eagerness which are usually regarded as the effect of enthusiasm, and Dorothea was anxious to follow this spontaneous direction of his thoughts, instead of being made to feel that she dragged him away from it.†
Chpt 2
- The tenacity with which he strove to hide this inward drama made it the more vivid for him; as we hear with the more keenness what we wish others not to hear.†
Chpt 4 *
- —but he secretly wondered over the terrible tenacity of this mild creature.†
Chpt 6
- That she should be obliged to do what she intensely disliked, was an idea which turned her quiet tenacity into active invention.†
Chpt 7
- Through all his bodily infirmity there ran a tenacious nerve of ambitious self-preserving will, which had continually leaped out like a flame, scattering all doctrinal fears, and which, even while he sat an object of compassion for the merciful, was beginning to stir and glow under his ashy paleness.†
Chpt 7
- She had an active force of antagonism within her, when the antagonism turned on the defence either of plans or persons that she believed in; and the wrongs which she felt that Will had received from her husband, and the external conditions which to others were grounds for slighting him, only gave the more tenacity to her affection and admiring judgment.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(tenacious) persistent and unyielding