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Obduracy

//ˈɑbdʊɹəsi// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being obdurate, intractable, or stubbornly inflexible.

    "By this hand thou, thinkeſt me as farre in the diuels booke, as thou and Falſtaffe, for obduracie and perſiſtancie, let the end trie the man, [...]"

  2. 2
    resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible wordnet

Etymology

From obdurate + -cy.

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