obdurate
English
Adjective
(en adjective )
Stubbornly persistent, generally in wrongdoing; refusing to reform or repent.
* Hooker
- The very custom of evil makes the heart obdurate against whatsoever instructions to the contrary.
* Shakespeare
- Art thou obdurate , flinty, hard as steel, / Nay, more than flint, for stone at rain relenteth?
* 1818 , ,”The Revolt of Islam”, canto 4, stanza 9, lines 1486-7:
- But custom maketh blind and obdurate
- The loftiest hearts.
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(obsolete) Physically hardened, toughened.
Synonyms
* (stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing): hardened, hard-hearted, impertinent, intractable, unrepentant, unyielding, recalcitrant
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obstinate
English
Adjective
(en adjective )
Stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course, usually with implied unreasonableness; persistent.
* 1686 , , “That men are justly punished for being obstinate in the defence of a fort that is not in reason to be defended”,
- From this consideration it is that we have derived the custom, in times of war, to punish
Said of inanimate things not easily subdued or removed.
* 1927 , ,
- Now it happened that Kasturbai had again begun getting haemorrhage, and the malady seemed to be obstinate .
Synonyms
* bloody-minded, persistent, stubborn, pertinacious
* (not easily subdued) persistent, unrelenting, inexorable
* See also
Derived terms
* obstinately
* obstinateness
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