Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Stubbornness; perverseness; wilfulness.
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Examples
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Only this, Miss, That your stomachfulness had swallowed up your stomach; and, That obstinacy was meat, drink, and clothes to you.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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My lord, I formerly was a great companion of his, for the which I now repent me, and I have often heard him say, and that with very great stomachfulness, that he believed there was neither God, angel, nor spirit.
The Holy War 2001
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Only this, Miss, That your stomachfulness had swallowed up your stomach; and, That obstinacy was meat, drink, and clothes to you.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 Samuel Richardson 1725
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My lord, I formerly was a great companion of his, for the which I now repent me, and I have often heard him say, and that with very great stomachfulness, that he believed there was neither
minerva commented on the word stomachfulness
"Only this, miss, that your stomachfulness had swallowed up your stomach; and that obstinancy was meat, drink, and cloth to you."
November 27, 2007