stubbornly

English

Etymology

stubborn +‎ -ly

Pronunciation

Audio (Southern England) (file)

Adverb

stubbornly (comparative more stubbornly, superlative most stubbornly)

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

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