Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for S'TUB'BORN-NESS
S'TUB'BORN-NESS, n.
- Perverse and unreasonable obstinacy; inflexibility; contumacy. Stubbornness and obstinate disobedience must be mastered with blows. – Locke.
- Stiffness; want of pliancy.
- Refractoriness, as of ores.
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