adamantine

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Domestic habits at Aylmer Park had grown with the growth of years till they had become adamantine, and domestic habits required prayers every morning at a quarter before nine o'clock.

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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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  • Stiff as adamantine, hands clasped over her bosom, a votive candle burning beside her The vicar hadn't wanted to read the service over Pepper, she was sure. —  deer leap.htm
  • 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
  • No longer adamantine, those limbs were still implacable, inescapable. —  J
  • Her full-bore critiques, often delivered before the performer quite knew they were done , were idiosyncratic, adamantine, methodically dismissive, and either brutally honest or sociopathically mean, depending on your point of view. —  MFSF,January2005
  • The studio is already working on X-Men Origins: Wolverine, with Hugh Jackman reprising his role as the adamantine-clawed antihero, but there are also tentative proposals in play for a Young X-Men project, and a spin-off featuring the character Deadpool. hostage taker in the independent suspense thriller The Steam Experiment, according to the Hollywood Reporter. —  Film | guardian.co.uk
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  1. from Latin adamantinus, from Greek ἀδαμάντινος, from ἀδάμας: see adamant.
 

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