pervicaciousness

English

Etymology

pervicacious +‎ -ness

Noun

pervicaciousness (uncountable)

The quality of being pervicacious.
- 1692, Richard Bentley, Eight Sermons Preach'd at the Honourable Robert Boyle's Lecture:
  It is pervicaciousness to deny, that he created matter also.

References

“pervicacious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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