Abjure vs Obdurate - What's the difference?

abjure | obdurate |

As a verb abjure

is .

As an adjective obdurate is

stubbornly persistent, generally in wrongdoing; refusing to reform or repent.

abjure

English

Verb

(abjur)

To renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow.

To abjure allegiance to a prince.

To abjure the realm (to swear to abandon it forever).

(transitive, obsolete, historical) To cause one to renounce or recant.

To reject with solemnity; to abandon forever; to repudiate; to disclaim.

To abjure errors.

* 1610 , , act 5 scene 1

But this rough magic I here abjure [...]

To abstain from; to avoid; to shun.

Synonyms

* renounce

References

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obdurate
English

Adjective
(en adjective)
Stubbornly persistent, generally in wrongdoing; refusing to reform or repent.

* Hooker

The very custom of evil makes the heart obdurate against whatsoever instructions to the contrary.

* Shakespeare

Art thou obdurate , flinty, hard as steel, / Nay, more than flint, for stone at rain relenteth?

* 1818 , ,"The Revolt of Islam", canto 4, stanza 9, lines 1486-7:

But custom maketh blind and obdurate

The loftiest hearts.

* {{quote-news
, year=2011 , date=February 12 , author=Les Roopanarine , title=Birmingham 1 - 0 Stoke , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=An injury-time goal from Nikola Zigic against an obdurate Stoke side gave Birmingham back-to back Premier League wins for the first time in 14 months.}}
(obsolete) Physically hardened, toughened.

Synonyms
* (stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing): hardened, hard-hearted, impertinent, intractable, unrepentant, unyielding, recalcitrant
Derived terms
* obduracy
Related terms
* durable, duration * endure, endurance, enduring
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