Crossword-Solution: OBSTINACY 9 letters, 17 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

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Word Word Type Definition
Obstinacy n. A fixedness in will, opinion, or resolution that can not
be shaken at all, or only with great difficulty; firm and usually
unreasonable adherence to an opinion, purpose, or system; unyielding
disposition; stubborness; pertinacity; persistency; contumacy.
Obstinacy n. The quality or state of being difficult to remedy,
relieve, or subdue; as, the obstinacy of a disease or evil.

We have 17 clues for the answer “OBSTINACY”

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state or quality of being obstinate 1 answer
Mulishness 3 answers
Stubbornness 4 answers
steeliness 4 answers
fixity 4 answers
velleity 14 answers
indefatigability 19 answers
Tenacity 27 answers
diligence 41 answers
causation 42 answers
Grit 49 answers
free will 51 answers
Confidence 58 answers
DECISION ___ 59 answers
desperation 61 answers
iron will 65 answers
Friction 88 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with OBSTINACY (5)

But there was an elasticity in her firmness which removed it from obstinacy, as there was a naïveté in her cheapening which saved it from meanness.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
Knowing your natural temper better than I, he could the better judge what arguments to use, whether of tenderness or terror, such as might prevail over your hardness and obstinacy, insomuch that you should no longer hide the name of him who tempted you to this grievous fall.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
Just’s name and of the peril in which he stood, Sir Percy’s face had become a shade more pale; and the look of determination and obstinacy appeared more marked than ever between his eyes.
The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993
Radical Republicans in Congress were outraged both at the unrepentant obstinacy of the South and at the leniency of Johnson's plan for restoration.
The Black Experience in America Norman Coombs 2008
But one cannot be too much on his guard in such a case, lest his actions be biassed by obstinacy, or an undue regard for the opinions of men.
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Henry David Thoreau 1993

Quotes with OBSTINACY (3)

Had he but turned back then, and looked out once more on to the rose-lit garden, she would have seen that which would have made her own sufferings seem but light and easy to bear--a strong man, overwhelmed with his own passion and despair. Pride had given way at last, obstinacy was gone: the will was powerless. He was but a man madly, blindly, passionately in love and as soon as her light footstep had died away within the house, he knelt down upon the terrace steps, and in th…
Emmuska Orczy The Scarlet Pimpernel
If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason and courtesy; but just because the contention is reversed and each side is fighting the other side’s battle, all the bitterness which really flows from thwarted self-righteousness and obstinacy and from the accumulated grudges of the last ten years is concealed from them by the nominal or official "Unselfishness" of what they are doing or, at least, held to be excused by it.
C. S. Lewis The Screwtape Letters
In the time before Gnan (time before 1958 when Dada Bhagwan got manifested) there was obstinacy within me. ‘I’ discovered that obstinacy does not let the light of Gnan (Eternal Knowledge) to come through. Then I saw all that obstinacy, and it was destroyed. Thereafter the Gnan (Eternal Knowledge) manifested. One has to observe one’s own self that where lies the obstinacies. The Self is an observatory itself.
Dada Bhagwan