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adamantine | assets |

As an adjective adamantine

is made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains.

As a noun assets is

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adamantine

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains.
  • * 1667 , , Book I:
    • Him the Almighty Power
    Hurld headlong flaming from th' Ethereal Skie
    With hideous ruine and combustion down
    To bottomless perdition, there to dwell
    In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire,
    Who durst defie th' Omnipotent to Arms.
  • *1984 , Gayle Rubin, "Thinking Sex" in Carole S. Vance, Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality (Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul), 267-319.
    • Sex law is the most adamantine instrument of sexual stratification and erotic persecution.
  • Like the diamond in hardness or luster.

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    assets

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • English plurals
  • (finance) Any property or object of value that one possesses, usually considered as applicable to the payment of one's debts.
    • His assets are much greater than his liabilities.
  • (legal) Sufficient estate; property sufficient in the hands of an executor or heir to pay the debts or legacies of the testator or ancestor to satisfy claims against it.
  • Any goods or property properly available for the payment of a bankrupt's or a deceased person's obligations or debts.