obstinately

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

OB'STINATELY, adverb Stubbornly; pertinaciously; with fixedness of purpose not to be shaken, or not without difficulty; as a sinner obstinately bent on his own destruction. Inflexible to ill and obstinately just.
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