Indurate vs Obdurate - What's the difference?
indurate | obdurate |
to harden or to grow hard
to make callous or unfeeling
to inure; to strengthen; to make hardy or robust.
Hardened; not soft; indurated.
Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate.
Stubbornly persistent, generally in wrongdoing; refusing to reform or repent.
* Hooker
* Shakespeare
* 1818 , ,"The Revolt of Islam", canto 4, stanza 9, lines 1486-7:
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(obsolete) Physically hardened, toughened.
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As adjectives the difference between indurate and obdurate
is that indurate is indurated, obstinate, unfeeling, callous while obdurate is stubbornly persistent, generally in wrongdoing; refusing to reform or repent.As a verb indurate
is to harden or to grow hard.indurate
English
Verb
(en-verb)Synonyms
* inureDerived terms
* induration * indurativeAdjective
(en adjective)- (Tyndale)
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*Anagrams
* ----obdurate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The very custom of evil makes the heart obdurate against whatsoever instructions to the contrary.
- Art thou obdurate , flinty, hard as steel, / Nay, more than flint, for stone at rain relenteth?
- But custom maketh blind and obdurate
- The loftiest hearts.
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