stubbornly

English

Etymology

From stubborn +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

stubbornly (comparative more stubbornly, superlative most stubbornly)

1. In a stubborn manner.

   He stubbornly refused to quit trying, even after failing 20 times.

   • 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 109:

     It is the outpost which the devil and the flesh most stubbornly maintain against the assaults of grace; and until it be subdued, and its barriers levelled with the very earth, there is more hope of a fool than of the sinner.

   • 2000, Bill Manhire, Doubtful Sounds: Essays and Interviews, page 124:

     The novel he lends his name to is an account of that life, taking more or less the form of a memoir set down in the years immediately after World War II by an old man mentally preparing for death, not quite at home in the twentieth century (and a little proud of it, stubbornly clinging to his eartrumpet), whose significant memories reach back to the early 1890s and beyond.

   • 2013 January 22, Phil McNulty, “Aston Villa 2-1 Bradford (3-4)”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     Bradford may have lost on the night but they stubbornly protected a 3-1 first-leg advantage to emulate a feat last achieved by Rochdale in 1962.

Translations

in a stubborn manner

• Catalan: tossudament (ca)
• Czech: tvrdohlavě (cs)
• Finnish: jääräpäisesti (fi)
• French: obstinément (fr)
• Greek:

  Ancient: αὐθάδως (authádōs)

• Hungarian: makacsul (hu), konokul (hu)
• Italian: puntigliosamente (it), tenacemente (it), cocciutamente (it), testardamente (it), ostinatamente (it)
• Old English: ānwillīċe
• Romanian: încăpățânat (ro), cu încăpățânare
• Spanish: obstinadamente (es), tercamente (es)