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Obdurate vs Adamantine - What's the difference?

obdurate | adamantine |

As adjectives the difference between obdurate and adamantine

is that obdurate is stubbornly persistent, generally in wrongdoing; refusing to reform or repent while adamantine is made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains.

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

    References

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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.

    • Anagrams

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