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adjective

Tenacious adj.

Holding fast, or inclined to hold fast; inclined to retain what is in possession; as, men tenacious of their just rights.

Apt to retain; retentive; as, a tenacious memory.

Having parts apt to adhere to each other; cohesive; tough; as, steel is a tenacious metal; tar is more tenacious than oil.

Apt to adhere to another substance; glutinous; viscous; sticking; adhesive. "Female feet, too weak to struggle with tenacious clay."

Niggardly; closefisted; miserly.

Holding stoutly to one's opinion or purpose; obstinate; stubborn.

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... as he trod his beat like a policeman, but he was of a tenacious fiber, and scorning alike the warnings of cold and hunger, he remained near the house, drawing closer and watching it more zealously than ever in the moonlight. His resolution strengthened, too; he would stay there, if necessary, until the sunset ...

— Before the Dawn - A Story of the Fall of Richmond • Joseph Alexander Altsheler

... portion of the skin which secretes the horn of which the wall of the hoof is made. This horn much resembles the nail which grows on the fingers and toes of man. It is composed of cylindrical tubes, which are held together by a tenacious, opaque matter. The horn extends from the coronary band to the lower border of the hoof. (Plate ...

— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture

... proportion of the misery that wanders, in hideous forms around the world, is allowed to rise from the negligence of parents; and still these are the people who are most tenacious of what they term a natural right, though it be subversive of the birth right of man, the right of acting according to the ...

— A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Title: Vindication of the Rights of Women • Mary Wollstonecraft [Godwin]

... for piercing and tearing, this hook has sometimes left me with visible remembrances. Caught in turn by the creature which I had just captured, and not having both hands free, I have often been obliged to get a second person to free me from my tenacious captive! To free oneself by violence without disengaging the firmly implanted talons would result in lacerations such as the thorns of a rosebush will produce. None of our insects is so inconvenient ...

— Social Life in the Insect World • J. H. Fabre

... of citizens ordering base things, nor the face of the threatening tyrant shakes a man just and tenacious of principle from his ...

— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 • Various

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