The corpus record — Latin

obstinatio

obstinatio · f

firmness

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Where it lives

Ad Nationes 6 · 4.01/10k
De Spectaculis 2 · 3.14/10k
Atticus 1 · 2.83/10k
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 1 · 2.56/10k
Apologeticum 4 · 2/10k
De Provinciis Consularibus In Senatu 1 · 1.95/10k
De Tranquillitate Animi 1 · 1.32/10k
Res Gestae 11 · 0.86/10k
Historiae 3 · 0.58/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.56/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 2 · 0.17/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

obstĭnātĭo — Lewis & Short

obstĭnātĭo, ōnis, f.obstino,

I firmness, in a good and bad sense; resolution, steadfastness, determination, inflexibility, stubbornness, obstinacy (class.; syn.: pertinacia, contumacia): quae ego omnia obstinatione sententiae repudiavi, out of adherence to my principles, Cic. Prov. Cons. 17, 41: animi, Sen. Ep. 94, 7: fidei, Tac. H. 3, 39: taciturna, obstinate silence, Nep. Att. 22, 2: inflexibilis, Plin. Ep. 10, 97, 3.—In plur., Tert. ad Nat. 1, 17.

In the wild

obstinationem Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 15.94.7
obstinatio Tertullian, De Spectaculis 1.1
obstinationis Tertullian, Ad Nationes 1.18
obstinationem Tertullian, Apologeticum 2.6
obstinatione Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 31.15.10
obstinatione Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 17.9.1

6 of 39 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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