pertinaciously UK /ˌpɜː.təˈneɪ.ʃəs.li/US /ˌpɝːtənˈeɪʃəsli/ adverb1 •In a stubbornly resolute manner; tenaciously holding one's course of action or opinion.Saint Augustine makes this difference betweene an heretike, and him that beleeves an heretike. The first begets or followes an errour pertinaciously. — 1601 formsmore pertinaciously · most pertinaciously