adamantine

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The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness.

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  1. adjective Made of or resembling adamant.
  2. adjective Having the hardness or luster of a diamond.
  3. adjective Unyielding; inflexible: "If there is one dominant trait that emerges from this account, it is adamantine willpower” (Eugene Linden).

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  • Wherever the concretion of guilt is most adamantine, there he lets his fine slender jet of humor play like a lambent fire, until the dark mass crumbles, and the choragos of the tragedy begins his mournful yet hopeful chant among the ruins. —  A Study Of Hawthorne
  • He sur'veyed the terrain ahead, trying to see into the depths of the glittering, adamantine silicate forest. —  Sentenced To Prism
  • The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness. —  The Deadlocked City
  • They had meant it as prison for the adamantine figure, colored like old blood, that stood dominating the grotto, as it would have dominated the greatest place ever conceived. —  Conan The Triumphant
  • As for the image, and even Al'Kiir, he had confronted demons and sorcerers before, as well as every sort of monster from huge flesh-eating worms to giant spiders dripping corrosive poison from manibles that could pierce the finest armor to a dragon of adamantine scales and fiery breath. —  Conan The Triumphant
 

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  1. from Latin adamantinus, from Greek ἀδαμάντινος, from ἀδάμας: see adamant.
 

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