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Obdurate
Definitions
- 1 Stubbornly persistent, generally in wrongdoing; refusing to reform or repent.
"[…] sometimes the very custom of evil making the heart obdurate against whatsoever instructions to the contrary […]"
- 2 Physically hardened, toughened. obsolete
"The past is obdurate for the same reason a turtle's shell is obdurate: because the living flesh inside is tender and defenseless."
- 3 Hardened against feeling; hard-hearted.
"I fear the gentleman to whom Miss Amelia's letters were addressed was rather an obdurate critic."
- 1 showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings wordnet
- 2 stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing wordnet
- 1 To harden; to obdure. obsolete, transitive
Etymology
First attested in the 1450's, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English obdurat(e), borrowed from Latin obdūrātus (“hardened”), perfect passive participle of obdūrō (“to harden”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ob- (“against”) + dūrō (“to harden, render hard”), from dūrus (“hard”). Compare durable, endure.
Borrowed from Latin obdūrātus, see Etymology 1 and -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more
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