obstinacy
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Eleven men of Minneapolis went to their homes last week to tell great tales of Woman's Obstinacy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Obstinacy rather than brilliance had enabled him to discover insulin.
From Time Magazine Archive
But how could she succeed when against her were arrayed triumphant Obstinacy, personified by Queen Victoria, and triumphant Cynicism in the person of Alexandra's own husband, later Edward VII?
From Time Magazine Archive
Cotta goes on to criticise the Roman pantheon, ridiculing the idea of such gods as "Love, Deceit, Fear, Labor, Envy, Old Age, Death, Darkness, Misery, Lamentation, Favor, Fraud, Obstinacy," etc.
From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by Clarke, James Freeman
Obstinacy and insensibility were great sources of the crimes either perpetrated, or, by their lying historians, pretended to be perpetrated, under the name of Roman virtue.
From Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman by Walker, Alexander
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