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Definitions for obdurate
ˈɒb dʊ rɪt, -dyʊ-ob·du·rate

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. cussed, obdurate, obstinate, unrepentantadjective

    stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing

  2. flinty, flint, granitic, obdurate, stonyadjective

    showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings

    "his flinty gaze"; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart"

Wiktionary

  1. obdurateadjective

    Stubbornly persistent, generally in wrongdoing; refusing to reform or repent.

  2. obdurateadjective

    Physically hardened, toughened.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. OBDURATEadjective

    Etymology: obduratus, Latin.

    Oh! let me teach thee for thy father’s sake,
    That gave thee life, when well he might have slain thee;
    Be not obdurate, open thy deaf ears. William Shakespeare.

    If when you make your pray’rs,
    God should be so obdurate as yourselves,
    How would it fare with your departed souls? William Shakespeare.

    Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible;
    Thou stern, obdurate, flinty, rough, remorseless. William Shakespeare.

    To convince the proud what signs avail,
    Or wonders move th’ obdurate to relent;
    They harden’d more, by what might more reclaim. John Milton.

    Obdurate as you are, oh! hear at least
    My dying prayers, and grant my last request. Dryden.

    Sometimes the very custom of evil makes the heart obdurate against whatsoever instructions to the contrary. Richard Hooker.

    A pleasing sorcery could charm
    Pain for a while, or anguish, and excite
    Fallacious hope, or arm th’ obdurate breast
    With stubborn patience, as with triple steel. John Milton.

    No such thought ever strikes his marble, obdurate heart, but it presently flies off and rebounds from it. It is impossible for a man to be thorough-paced in ingratitude, till he has shook off all fetters of pity and compassion. South.

    They joined the most obdurate consonants without one intervening vowel. Jonathan Swift.

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  1. obdurate

    Obdurate refers to someone who is stubbornly refusing to change their opinion or course of action, despite attempts to persuade them to do so. It can also refer to a person who is resistant to feelings of sympathy or compassion.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Obdurateadjective

    hardened in feelings, esp. against moral or mollifying influences; unyielding; hard-hearted; stubbornly wicked

  2. Obdurateadjective

    hard; harsh; rugged; rough; intractable

  3. Obdurateverb

    to harden

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Obdurate

    ob′dū-rāt, adj. hardened in heart or in feelings: difficult to influence, esp. in a moral sense: stubborn: harsh.—n. Ob′dūracy, state of being obdurate: invincible hardness of heart.—adv. Ob′dūrately.—ns. Ob′dūrateness, Obdūrā′tion.—adj. Obdūred′, hardened. [L. obdurāre, -ātumob, against, durāre, to harden—durus, hard.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of obdurate in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of obdurate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

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2 Comments
  • Brad Johnston
    Brad Johnston
    Shouldn't you include the noun, obdurance?
    LikeReply 17 years ago
  • Melissa Marshall
    Melissa Marshall
    Right on cue
    LikeReply 28 years ago

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