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obdurate
/ˈɑbd(j)ʊɹɪt/
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What does obdurate mean?
adjective
- Stubbornly persistent, generally in wrongdoing; refusing to reform or repent.
- Hardened against feeling; hard-hearted.
More meanings (2)
adjective
- (obsolete) Physically hardened, toughened.
verb
- (obsolete) To harden; to obdure.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɑbd(j)ʊɹɪt/
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But at one part of the line there was a grim and obdurate group that made no movement.
François was obdurate, but when he turned his back Buck again displaced Sol-leks, who was not at all unwilling to go.
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Nor is it surprising that she remained obdurate, seeing that the popular imagination still continued to run riot over his supposed enormities.
Ah, countrymen, if when you make your prayers, God should be so obdurate as yourselves, How would it fare with your departed souls?
But he tried to enforce his rights as a husband, a proceeding than which there is none more absurd should the wife prove obdurate.