Indurated vs Obdurate - What's the difference?

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Indurated is a related term of obdurate.

As a verb indurated

is (indurate).

As an adjective obdurate is

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

indurated

English

Verb

(head)

(indurate)

indurate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Indurated, obstinate, unfeeling, callous.

Verb

(en-verb)

to harden or to grow hard

to make callous or unfeeling

to inure; to strengthen; to make hardy or robust.

Synonyms

* inure

Derived terms

* induration * indurative

Adjective

(en adjective)

Hardened; not soft; indurated.

(Tyndale)

Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate.

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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

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(obsolete) Physically hardened, toughened.

Synonyms

* (stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing): hardened, hard-hearted, impertinent, intractable, unrepentant, unyielding, recalcitrant

Derived terms

* obduracy

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