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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—O

Obstinate

The name of an inhabitant of the City of Destruction, who advised Christian to return to his family, and not run on fools' errands. (Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress, pt. i.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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