"pertinacity" meaning in English

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          "text": "1846, E.A.Poe, The Black Cat\nWith my aversion to this cat, however, its partiality for myself seemed to increase. It followed my footsteps with a pertinacity which it would be difficult to make the reader comprehend."
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          "word": "pertinaciousness"
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        {
          "word": "resolve"
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        {
          "word": "stubbornness"
        },
        {
          "word": "tenacity"
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          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "uporitost",
          "sense": "state of being pertinacious",
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            "feminine"
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          "word": "упоритост"
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          "sense": "state of being pertinacious",
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          "sense": "state of being pertinacious",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "pertinàcia"
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          "sense": "state of being pertinacious",
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          "word": "pertinacitat"
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          "sense": "state of being pertinacious",
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          "word": "ténacité"
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          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "state of being pertinacious",
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          "word": "teimosía"
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          "sense": "state of being pertinacious",
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            "feminine"
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          "word": "teimosia"
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "neustúpčivostʹ",
          "sense": "state of being pertinacious",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "неусту́пчивость"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "uprjámstvo",
          "sense": "state of being pertinacious",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "упря́мство"
        },
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          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "nepostuplyvistʹ",
          "sense": "state of being pertinacious",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "непоступливість"
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          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "vpertistʹ",
          "sense": "state of being pertinacious",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "впертість"
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          "text": "1846, E.A.Poe, The Black Cat\nWith my aversion to this cat, however, its partiality for myself seemed to increase. It followed my footsteps with a pertinacity which it would be difficult to make the reader comprehend."
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      "sense": "state of being pertinacious",
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      "sense": "state of being pertinacious",
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      "word": "pertinàcia"
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      "word": "pertinacitat"
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      "sense": "state of being pertinacious",
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      "word": "teimosía"
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      "sense": "state of being pertinacious",
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      "word": "teimosia"
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      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "neustúpčivostʹ",
      "sense": "state of being pertinacious",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "неусту́пчивость"
    },
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      "sense": "state of being pertinacious",
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      "word": "упря́мство"
    },
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      "sense": "state of being pertinacious",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "непоступливість"
    },
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      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "vpertistʹ",
      "sense": "state of being pertinacious",
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