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Definition
stubbornly not doing what others want
- She would not have been obstinate if I had not been weak.Chapter 20 (26% in)
- There, he had learnt to distinguish between the steadiness of principle and the obstinacy of self-will, between the darings of heedlessness and the resolution of a collected mind.Chapter 23 (71% in)
There are no more uses of "obstinate" in Persuasion.
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