stubbornly en · ADV
Pronunciation
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Etymology
Etymology tree English stubborn Middle English -ly English -ly English stubbornly From stubborn + -ly.
Meanings
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In a stubborn manner.
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.
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: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.
2013 January 22, Phil McNulty, “Aston Villa 2-1 Bradford (3-4)”, in BBC: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.
2000, Bill Manhire, Doubtful Sounds: Essays and Interviews, page 124:He stubbornly refused to quit trying, even after failing 20 times.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most stubbornly | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more stubbornly | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Translations (18)
es obstinadamente (in a stubborn manner) · fi jääräpäisesti (in a stubborn manner) · ro cu încăpățânare (in a stubborn manner) · ca tossudament (in a stubborn manner) · it ostinatamente (in a stubborn manner) · hu konokul (in a stubborn manner) · it tenacemente (in a stubborn manner) · es tercamente (in a stubborn manner) · it puntigliosamente (in a stubborn manner) · hu csökönyösen (in a stubborn manner) · it cocciutamente (in a stubborn manner) · fr obstinément (in a stubborn manner) · ro încăpățânat (in a stubborn manner) · hu makacsul (in a stubborn manner) · it testardamente (in a stubborn manner) · cs tvrdohlavě (in a stubborn manner) · ang ānwillīċe (in a stubborn manner) · grc αὐθάδως (in a stubborn manner)