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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

STUBBORNNESS

n. 1. Perverse and unreasonable obstinacy; inflexibility; contumacy.
Stubbornness and obstinate disobedience must be mastered with blows.
2. Stiffness; want of pliancy.
3. Refractoriness, as of ores.