Both Uses of
pertinacious
in
Moby Dick
- Here be it said, that this pertinacious pursuit of one particular whale, continued through day into night, and through night into day, is a thing by no means unprecedented in the South sea fishery.†
Chpt 133-135 *pertinacious = stubbornly unyielding
- And still as Ahab glided over the waves the unpitying sharks accompanied him; and so pertinaciously stuck to the boat; and so continually bit at the plying oars, that the blades became jagged and crunched, and left small splinters in the sea, at almost every dip.†
Chpt 133-135pertinaciously = in a stubbornly unyielding manner
Definitions:
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(1)
(pertinacious) stubbornly unyielding
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus