Obstinately Definition

Obstinately Sentence Examples

• The city held out obstinately against the pretensions of the stadtholders, and in 1650 opened the dykes in order to prevent William II.

• The abbey was dissolved (12th of July 1559), and within a year Feckenham was sent by Archbishop Parker to the Tower (loth of May 1560), according to Jewel, "for having obstinately refused attendance on public worship and everywhere declaiming and railing against that religion which we now profess" (Parker Society, first series, p. 79).

• The Home Office letter obstinately refuses to delete the effect leaving only " purpose " as proposed by the noble baroness, Lady Miller.

• But Flavilla obstinately insisted on her scaled and fish-tailed costume.

• You do not resist cold and hunger, the winds and the waves, thus obstinately; you quietly submit to a thousand similar necessities.