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Definitions
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:”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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