Meanings (ES + gloss)
obcecado • obstinado • porfiado
Stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course, usually with implied unreasonableness; persistent.
From this consideration it is that we have derived the custom, in times of war, to punish […] those who are obstinate to defend a place that by the rules of war is not tenable […]
[…] the junior Osborne was quite as obstinate as the senior: when he wanted a thing, quite as firm in his resolution to get it; and quite as violent when angered, as his father in…
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