stubbornness
/ˈstʌbɚn(n)əs/ noun C2- The state of being stubborn.
Plural stubbornnesses
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She braved it for a moment or two with an eye full of love and stubbornness, and murmured a phrase or two vaguely of Gen.
Marilla saw something remarkably like unyielding stubbornness looking out of Anne’s small face.
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others.
It is hard to imagine a better illustration of the quality that defined her career: a patience so deep that it could look, to outsiders, almost like stubbornness, and that was in fact a quiet form of confidence.
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