What is the meaning of pertinacious?

adjective

  • Stubbornly unyielding.
    • usage: "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it- T. S. Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"
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