All 5 Uses of
obstinate
in
Madame Bovary
- What obstinacy not to wear flannels!†
Chpt 1.2
- Ah! you will find many prejudices to combat, Monsieur Bovary, much obstinacy of routine, with which all the efforts of your science will daily come into collision; for people still have recourse to novenas, to relics, to the priest, rather than come straight to the doctor or the chemist.†
Chpt 2.2
- And Homais retired, declaring that he could not understand this obstinacy, this blindness in refusing the benefactions of science.†
Chpt 2.11
- Leon, motionless, looked at her, no longer even attempting to speak a single word, to make a gesture, so discouraged was he at this two-fold obstinacy of gossip and indifference.†
Chpt 3.1
- How obstinate you are sometimes!†
Chpt 3.4 *
Definition:
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(obstinate) stubbornly not doing what others want