10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PERVICACITY»
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pervicacity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
pervicacity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Life of John Ruskin
2 PERVICACITY OF CHARACTER CHAP. Pervicacity of humour, of tastes, of
character is one of the most marked features in the life of Ruskin. For nearly fifty
years he was a writer of printed books, which became in the end so numerous
that ...
2
The Life of John Ruskin:
... the change is " that of a tree, not of a cloud." 2 1 Cambridge Inaugural Address,
§ 13. 2 Preface to Modem Painters, vol. v. VOL. I. A 2 PERVICACITY OF
CHARACTER CHAP. Pervicacity of humour, of tastes, CHILDHOOD (1819-1832)
3
The Works of John Ruskin
PERVICACITY. OF. CHARACTER. [This passage in the MS. follows i. § 245 (p.
220).] I have seemed conceited enough in the account just given of my faculty of
admiration — but have to add this fatal depreciation, that I had not the slightest ...
John Ruskin, Sir Edward Tyas Cook, Alexander Wedderburn,
1908
4
Geiriadur Saesneg a Chymraeg: An English and Welsh ...
Perveriion, 5. gwyrdroad, llyg riad Perveit, 'и, camdroi, camdroíi, gwyrdroi, gwyro
Perverted, part. a wyrdrowyd, gwyrdroedig P Perverter, 5. gwyrdroydd Pervertible
, а. gwyradwy, hyPervicacious, а. yfiyfnig [dro Pervicacy, Pervicacity, ...
5
A Dictionary of the English Language: In Wh[i]ch the Words ...
OVERTHWA'RTLY. ad. [ from w thrwart.] 1. Acrofs; transverscly. 2. Pcrvicaciousìy ;
perversely, OVERTHWA'RTNESS. /. [from mr- tbviart.] Pervicacity ; perveríenefs.
OVERTOO'K. fret, and part. pajs. ai mur- take. To OVERTO'P. v. a. [ovtr and top.] ...
6
Of Mangoes and Monsoons: A Novel
... but with his penchant for pervicacity Ramesh doggedly walked on without
resting till he reached, exhausted, the mountain temple. His effort was immensely
rewarded when Yadavendra quietly took him very close to the chariot readied for
...
7
The history of Great Britain
It was this gay empress (by some styled the Northern Messalina) who many years
afterwards, when admitted to spend her widowhood in chaste solitariness in
imitation of the turtle dove, is faid to have replied with pervicacity, ' Every one to ...
James Pettit Andrews,
1795
8
A General Dictionary of the English Language. One Main ...
Pervicacity, perverseness. OUG OVERTOOK, o-vsir-tfik'. pret. and part. pass. of
Overtake. _ To O'VERTOP, o-vx'rr-top'. v. a. To rise above, to raise the head
abOVe; to excel, to surpass ; to obscure, to make os less importance by superior
...
9
Johnson's Dictionary of the English language, in miniature ...
... apparent Overta'ke, v.a. to come op with in a porsoit OverthroV, v. a. to roin,
defeat, overtorn Overthwa'rt, a. opposite, perverse, ndverse Overthwar'tness, /.
pervicacity, perverseness Overtly, nd. openly, poblicly, manifestly Overloo'kfpre/.
Samuel Johnson, Joseph Hamilton (M.A.),
1805
10
Nation and Novel: The English Novel from its Origins to the ...
Buther familydefines heras arebel and usesarich vocabularyofterms such as '
opposition', 'defiance', 'sullenness', 'perverseness', 'obstinacy', and 'pervicacity' to
condemn her resistance to an arranged marriage. Clarissa asserts her ...