obdurate

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  1. adjective Hardened in wrongdoing or wickedness; stubbornly impenitent: "obdurate conscience of the old sinner” (Sir Walter Scott).
  2. adjective Hardened against feeling; hardhearted: an obdurate miser.
  3. 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
  • The commissary, of course, remains obdurate, and Tristram protests that the treatment to which he is being subjected is “contrary to the law of nature, contrary to reason, contrary to the Gospel:” —  Sterne
  • She was silent, obdurate, and she soon left. —  Fifteen Years With The Outcast
  • Stern, obdurate, and high; —  Charles Dickens and Music
 

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  1. 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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  1. from Latin obduratus, past participle of obdurare (later Portuguese obdurar), harden, become hardened: see obdure.
  2. = Italian obdurato, from Latin obduratus, past participle, hardened: see the verb.
 

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