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obdurate

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈɒbdʒʊɹɪt/Part of speech adjectiveSorted abdeortuStarts with OEnds with E0 clues
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  1. showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings

Word origin

First attested in the 1450s, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English obdurat(e), borrowed from Latin obdūrātus (“hardened”), perfect passive participle of obdūrō (“to harden”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ob- (“against”) + dūrō (“to harden, render hard”), from dūrus (“hard”). Compare durable, endure.

Used in a sentence

  • […] sometimes the very custom of evil making the heart obdurate against whatsoever instructions to the contrary […]
  • Art thou obdurate, flintie, hard as ſteele? / Nay more then flint, for ſtone at raine relenteth: […]
  • […] round he throws his baleful eyes That witness'd huge affliction and dismay Mixt with obdurate pride and stedfast hate:

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