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Webster 1828 Edition

Stubbornness

STUBBORNNESS

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Noun.

1.

Perverse and unreasonable obstinacy; inflexibility; contumacy.

Stubbornness and obstinate disobedience must be mastered with blows.

2.

Stiffness; want of pliancy.

3.

Refractoriness, as of ores.