2. (modifier) stubborn, obstinate, tenacious, determined, strong-willed, persevering.
Ko ngā moemoeā whakatohe a te hāhi Hauhau he mea whakaatu i roto i tētahi pukapuka i Tauranga (TTR 1990:314). / The obstinate dream of the Hauhau faith was most fully recorded in a book in Tauranga.