pervicacious

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pervicacious (pur-vi-KEY-shuhs) - adj., extremely willful, obstinate, inflexible, stubborn, refractory.


Coined around 1630 from the Latin stem pervicāc- of pervicāx, stubborn, willful, from intensifying prefix per- + vic-, variant stem of vincere, to conquer. So despite the meaning and spelling, unrelated to perverse, which at root means thoroughly turn (the wrong way).

---L.

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