pertinacy
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Latin pertinacia, from pertinax. See pertinacious.
Noun edit
pertinacy (usually uncountable, plural pertinacies)
- Obsolete form of pertinacity.
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
pertinacy (uncountable)
- The quality or state of being pertinent; pertinence.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pertinacy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)