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  • noun same as adamancy.

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  • noun The quality of being adamant

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  • noun resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible

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Examples

  • Doug told him that it was all right if he watched TV downstairs or made himself food in the kitchen, but Billy declared with an adamance that surprised them both that he would not go downstairs until they returned.

    Baby Games Chelsea White 2010

  • To tell the truth, it was due to my husband's adamance several years ago that I finally gave up and cleaned out the bridesmaid's gowns and leftover college dance dresses that I had stored for years upon years, a process that was as painful to me as having a tooth extracted.

    Archive 2007-10-01 regina doman 2007

  • To tell the truth, it was due to my husband's adamance several years ago that I finally gave up and cleaned out the bridesmaid's gowns and leftover college dance dresses that I had stored for years upon years, a process that was as painful to me as having a tooth extracted.

    Clothing Organization part 5: Dress-up clothes regina doman 2007

  • Her adamance came not from any contempt for nurses -- her mother had sent three kids to college and helped countless people in Grand Forks, North Dakota, as an RN.

    Jennifer Baumgardner: A Woman in the White House 2008

  • With adamance, they won the argument the argument between Democrats who feared that discussing the reality of machine fraud would discourage Democratic vote and those who knew that only the truth would energize the required landslide that was needed to overwhelm "The Math."

    Mimi Kennedy: Change, Victory and Discourse 2008

  • Watch the video, and you'll see that the dour adamance with which Bush insists his administration "does not torture" betrays him here: it communicates a clear awareness that torture is, in itself, a moral wrong.

    Chris Meserole: Worse Than "Mission Accomplished" 2008

  • With his corny jokes and his mis-pronouncing of my favorite things so that I'd have to correct him EVERY time he said them, his paranoia to be even earlier than me (which we didn't think was possible), his naivety in some situations, his adamance in others ... he was, afterall, my dad and therefore also my hero.

    family annoyances and theatre camp annabellee3 2003

  • Watty Watson, the party's spokesman on local government, said in a statement Shiceka's adamance "makes a farce of transparency".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Instead, President Obama shows homopathic adamance in calling Taliban guerillas Al Quaida and says that he soes not care about American casualties.

    WN.com - Articles related to Kenya bread price skyrockets 2010

  • Instead, President Obama shows homopathic adamance in calling Taliban guerillas Al Quaida and says that he soes not care about American casualties.

    WN.com - Articles related to Kenya bread price skyrockets 2010

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