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Stub(b)urnes, n. Also: stubburnnes, -irnes, -ernes, -ornes. [Late ME and e.m.E. styburnesse (Prompt. Parv.), stubburnesse (Coverdale), stubbernes (a1548); Stub(b)urn(e adj.] Recalcitrance, obstinacy. 1540 Lynd. Sat. 2145.
That cockatrice, that commoun heure, The mekle divill ma not indeure Hir stuburnes and stink 1562-3 Winȝet I 8/17.
Fallin in extreme ignorance of God and in obstinat stubbirnes to leir sinceirlie His law 1562-3 Winȝet II 54/31.
Stubburnes 1568 St. A. Kirk S. 297.
Being of mynd to repres his stubburnes and … to wyn hym 1566-70 Buch. Comm. on Virgil Æn. i 132.
Tantane vos generis tenuit fiducia vestri, ar ȝe sa malapert as ȝor fatheris, follow ȝe the stubbornes of ȝour fatheris 1558-66 Knox II 147.
I confes myself most worthie to be ejected … in cais of my stubburnnes 1612 Fraserburgh Kirk S. 6b (30 Sept.).
Onrewlie personis ar begun to eik stubburnes to thair sin and disobedience in full sort that lauchfullie sumondit they compeir nocht 1640 Dundonald Par. Rec. 468.
The maister to kyth his prudence … by moderat severitie if that be fund most convenient for thair [sc. scholars'] stubbornes 1641 Dunkeld Presb. II 89.
The woefull ignorance, rudeness, stubbernes, and incapacitie that is seen among the commune people