A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1600-1682
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Pertinaciously, -lie, adv. Also: pertinatius-. In early use, appar. only Sc. Cf. 19th c. Eng. pertinaciously (1830).] Resolutely; obstinately; pertinaciously. —1600-1610 Melvill 124.
A few buikes of Aristotle quhilk they lernit pertinatiuslie to bable and flyt upon 1622 D. Lindesay Heavenly Chariot 67.
Thou wouldest haue been affraid from kepping … this effectless comparison … so pertinaciouslie even to this day 1652 Dumfries Kirk S. 5 Sept.
Row 58. [He] pertinaciouslie & stubbornelie stood to the defence thairoff 1682 Irvine Nomenclatura Ded. *vj.
Those wretches that … pertinaciously avouch'd it a covenant-duty to destroy both King and government
