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obstinate
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Wide Sargasso Sea
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- If she was a child she was not a stupid child but an obstinate one.†
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- 'No road,' he repeated obstinately.†
Part 2obstinately = stubbornly unyielding to the wishes of others
- I stared at her, thinking, 'but how can she know the best thing for me to do, this ignorant, obstinate old negro woman, who is not certain if there is such a place as England?'†
Part 2
Definitions:
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(1)
(obstinate) stubbornly not doing what others want
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)