adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a tenacious manner; with a strong hold; persistently, stedfastly, stubbornly.

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a. 1667.  Jer. Taylor, Serm. for Year, III. i. (1841), 352/2. To resent an error deeply,… to remember it tenaciously, to repeat it frequently.

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a. 1677.  Hale, Prim. Orig. Man., 250. Ocellus Lucanus … tenaciously asserted the Eternity of the World.

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1777.  Robertson, Hist. Amer., I. II. 111. Columbus adhered tenaciously to his original opinion.

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1808.  Scott, in Lockhart (1837), I. i. 37. My memory … seldom failed to preserve most tenaciously a favourite passage of poetry.

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1882.  A. W. Ward, Dickens, i. 16. It is not surprising that … the name should have clung to him so tenaciously.

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