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  2. Opposite - Wikipedia

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    The term antonym (and the related antonymy) is commonly taken to be synonymous with opposite, but antonym also has other more restricted meanings. Graded (or gradable) antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite and which lie on a continuous spectrum (hot, cold).

  3. Heresy in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    Heresy, for Scripture and the early Church, includes the idea of a personal decision against the unity of the Church, and heresy's characteristic is pertinacia, the obstinacy of him who persists in his own private way. This, however, cannot be regarded as an appropriate description of the spiritual situation of the Protestant Christian.

  4. Unpaired word - Wikipedia

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    An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not. [1] Such words usually have a prefix or suffix that would imply that there is an antonym, with the prefix or suffix being absent or opposite.

  5. Converse (semantics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, converses or relational antonyms are pairs of words that refer to a relationship from opposite points of view, such as parent/child or borrow/lend. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The relationship between such words is called a converse relation . [ 2 ]

  6. Heteronym (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Still, the dogged obstinacy of his race held him to the pace he had set, and would hold him till he dropped in his tracks. (Jack London, The Son of the Wolf) dove / ˈ d ʌ v / noun a bird / ˈ d oʊ v / verb Mainly American past tense of dive: ellipses

  7. Antipope Benedict XIII - Wikipedia

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    The Anti-pope (Peter de Luna, 1342–1423): A study in obstinacy by Alec Glasfurd, Roy Publishers, New York (1965) B0007IVH1Q is a somewhat fictionalised or imaginative account of his life. Pluja seca by Jaume Cabré (2001) is a play based on his death and succession.

  8. Censure (Catholic canon law) - Wikipedia

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    Although censures are medicinal punishments intended to overcome obstinacy, they do not cease immediately upon repentance. Since the imposition of a censure is a judicial act, judicial absolution is required, and it must be lawfully granted when there is true amendment.

  9. Obsessive–compulsive personality disorder - Wikipedia

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    [39] [40] He identified the main strands of the personality type as a preoccupation with orderliness, parsimony , and obstinacy (rigidity and stubbornness). The concept fits his theory of psychosexual development. Freud believed that the anal retentive character faced difficulties regulating the control of defecation, leading to repercussions ...