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Another word for perversity

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Noun

  1. The quality or state of being stubbornly unyielding

    See also:

    resist

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Sentence Examples

  • It is impatience, a perversity of will, that is the cause of error.

  • But except for this single instance of oversight or perversity her defence was throughout a masterpiece of indomitable ingenuity, of delicate and steadfast courage, of womanly dignity and genius.

  • He still, however, had no lack of patrons - he never had - though his perversity made him quarrel with all in turn.

  • It should be observed that examples have been given of every kind of mighty work referred to in the reply of Jesus to the messengers of the Baptist; and that in the discourse which follows their departure the perversity and unbelief of the people generally are condemned, and the faith of the humble-minded is contrasted therewith.

  • And there is no more extraordinary thing in the history of opinion than the perversity with which Comte has succeeded in clothing a philosophic doctrine, so intrinsically conciliatory as his, in a shape that excites so little sympathy and gives so much provocation.

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