obstinate
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English obstinate, obstinat, from Latin obstinātus, past participle of obstinō ("set one's mind firmly upon, resolve"), from ob ("before") + *stinare, from stare ("to stand").
Pronunciation- (British) IPA: /ˈɒb.stɪ.nət/, /ˈɒb.stɪ.nɪt/
- (America) enPR: äb'stənət, IPA: /ˈɑb.stə.nət/, /ˈɑb.stə.nɪt/
obstinate
- Stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course, usually with implied unreasonableness; persistent.
- 1686, Montaigne, translated by Charles Cotton, That men are justly punished for being obstinate in the defence of a fort that is not in reason to be defended:
- From this consideration it is that we have derived the custom, in times of war, to punish […] those who are obstinate to defend a place that by the rules of war is not tenable […]
- 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 21, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC ↗:
- […] the junior Osborne was quite as obstinate as the senior: when he wanted a thing, quite as firm in his resolution to get it; and quite as violent when angered, as his father in his most stern moments
- (of inanimate things) Not easily subdued or removed.
- 1925-29, Mahadev Desai (translator), Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part IV, Chapter XXIX,
- Now it happened that Kasturbai […] had again begun getting haemorrhage, and the malady seemed to be obstinate.
- 1925-29, Mahadev Desai (translator), Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part IV, Chapter XXIX,
- (of a facial feature) Typical of an obstinate person; fixed and unmoving.
- 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
- He had the same pile of curly hair, but he was clean-shaven with a heavy, obstinate jowl.
- (stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course) bloody-minded, persistent, stubborn, pertinacious, see also Thesaurus:obstinate
- (not easily subdued) persistent, unrelenting, inexorable
- French: obstiné
- German: hartnäckig, starrköpfig, stur
- Italian: ostinato, pertinace
- Portuguese: obstinado, persistente, pertinaz
- Russian: упря́мый
- Spanish: obstinado, obcecado, porfiado
- German: widerspenstig, widerborstig, hartnäckig
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