pervicaciousness

English

Etymology

From pervicacious +‎ -ness.

Noun

pervicaciousness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being pervicacious.
   • 1692, Richard Bentley, Eight Sermons Preach'd at the Honourable Robert Boyle's Lecture:

     It is pervicaciousness to deny, that he created matter also.

References

• “pervicacious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.