"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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          "roman": "uporitost",
          "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": "непоступливість"
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          "roman": "vpertistʹ",
          "sense": "state of being pertinacious",
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