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Stiff-necked

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having a stiff neck; suffering from torticollis literally
  2. 2
    Stubborn and arrogant. figuratively

    "For the Lord had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee."

Adjective
  1. 1
    haughtily stubborn wordnet

Etymology

From stiff + neck + -ed. (figurative): Calque of Hebrew קשה ערף (Exodus 33). A biblical term similar to Swedish styvnackad, Ancient Greek σκληροτράχηλος (sklērotrákhēlos), Russian жестоковыйный (žestokovyjnyj), German halsstarrig etc.

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