Definition of Obstination. Meaning of Obstination. Synonyms of Obstination

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Definition of Obstination

Obstination
Obstination Ob`sti*na"tion, n. [L. obstinatio.] Obstinacy; stubbornness. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor.

Meaning of Obstination from wikipedia

- [ostiˈnaːto]; derived from the Italian word for stubborn, compare English obstinate) is a motif or phrase that persistently repeats in the same musical voice...
- Heresy is defined by the Catholic Church as "the obstinate denial or obstinate doubt after the reception of baptism of some truth which is to be believed...
- persuade them to accompany him. Obstinate and Pliable go after Christian to bring him back, but Christian refuses. Obstinate returns disgusted, but Pliable...
- challenge a larger dog. Indulged dachshunds may become snappy or extremely obstinate. A 2008 University of Pennsylvania study of 6,000 dog owners who were...
- Chile, Obstinate Memory (Spanish: Chile, la memoria obstinada) is a do****entary film, directed by Patricio Guzmán and released in 1997. The film profiles...
- predecessor. Sixty-four of them were summoned to Avignon and the most obstinate delivered over to the Inquisition, four of them being burned (1318). Shortly...
- a footnote, additional small notes, or an additional staff) ostinato Obstinate, persistent (i.e. a short musical pattern that is repeated throughout...
- and therefore I have related it barely and in short, lest I should seem obstinate and pertinacious if I had admitted what is so generally talked. I had...
- He turned upon his powerful neighbor Joan, excommunicated her as an obstinate partisan of Clement, and permitted a crusade to be preached against her...
- In psychology, rigidity, or mental rigidity, refers to an obstinate inability to yield or a refusal to appreciate another person's viewpoint or emotions...