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Mulishness

noun
1.
The trait of being difficult to handle or overcome.  Synonyms: obstinacy, obstinance, stubbornness.






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"Mulishness" Quotes from Famous Books



... dwelt upon Falconer's part in the attack the next night, and upon the entire reasonableness of his abandonment of the trail. He put it down to his own mulishness that he had hung on and had learned through the little boy of her ...
— The Palace of Darkened Windows • Mary Hastings Bradley

... was always grasping the wrong end of things, and sticking to it with that human mulishness which is often stronger, and more often wearies and breaks down the opposition than an intelligent man's arguments. He was——or professed to be, the family said—unable for a long time to distinguish between his two grand-nephews, ...
— Children of the Bush • Henry Lawson

... see that no wind of provocation unduly stirred these depths. Worse even than these possibilities of violence, however, so far as every-day life was concerned, was the strain of obstinacy which belonged to the Thorpe temper. A sort of passive mulishness it was, impervious to argument, immovable under the most sympathetic pressure, which particularly tried the Dabney patience. It seemed to Julia now, as she interposed her soothing influence between these jarring ...
— The Market-Place • Harold Frederic



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