obdurate
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- adjective Hardened in wrongdoing or wickedness; stubbornly impenitent: "obdurate conscience of the old sinner” (Sir Walter Scott).
- adjective Hardened against feeling; hardhearted: an obdurate miser.
- adjective Not giving in to persuasion; intractable. See Synonyms at inflexible.
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- He was brave and obdurate, and a very able second. — Simon Bolivar the Liberator
- But the old gentleman was quite obdurate, and we were about to turn away when young M. stepped forward, and said, 'Mr. Wade, my name is M. and I come from So-and-so.' — Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885
- She was silent, obdurate, and she soon left. — Fifteen Years With The Outcast
- Stern, obdurate, and high; — Charles Dickens and Music
- But he had been obdurate, and so had her mother. — Drums of Autumn
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- Middle English obdurat, from Late Latin obdūrātus, past participle of obdūrāre, to harden, from Latin, to be hard, endure : ob-, intensive pref.; see ob- + dūrus, hard; see deru- in Indo-European roots.
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/ (ŏbˈdo͝o-rĭt, -dyo͝o-)/
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