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Obstinately

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ad. In an obstinate manner.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

In an obstinate manner; with fixedness of purpose not to be shaken, or to be shaken with difficulty; stubbornly; pertinaciously.

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ad. in a stubborn unregenerate manner

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"In my more cynical moods, I sometimes suspect certain obstinately obscure writers of deliberately exploiting this kind of ambiuity in hopes that readers will split the difference between definitional truth and empirical falsehood and come up with profundity."

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