Meaning of OBDURATE
Pronunciation: | | 'âbdûrit
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- [adj] showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart"
- [adj] stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
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| Synonyms: | | cussed, flinty, hardhearted, heartless, obstinate, stony, unregenerate, unregenerated, unrepentant |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Ob"du*rate\, a. [L. obduratus, p. p. of obdurare to
harden; ob (see Ob-)+ durare to harden, durus hard. See
{Dure}.]
1. Hardened in feelings, esp. against moral or mollifying
influences; unyielding; hard-hearted; stubbornly wicked.
The very custom of evil makes the heart obdurate
against whatsoever instructions to the contrary.
--Hooker.
Art thou obdurate, flinty, hard as steel, Nay, more
than flint, for stone at rain relenteth? --Shak.
2. Hard; harsh; rugged; rough; intractable. ``Obdurate
consonants.'' --Swift.
Note: Sometimes accented on the second syllable, especially
by the older poets.
There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart.
--Cowper.
Syn: Hard; firm; unbending; inflexible; unyielding; stubborn;
obstinate; impenitent; callous; unfeeling; insensible;
unsusceptible.
Usage: {Obdurate}, {Callous}, {Hardened}. Callous denotes a
deadening of the sensibilities; as. a callous
conscience. Hardened implies a general and settled
disregard for the claims of interest, duty, and
sympathy; as, hardened in vice. Obdurate implies an
active resistance of the heart and will aganst the
pleadings of compassion and humanity. --
{Ob"du*rate*ly}, adv. -- {Ob"du*rate*ness}, n.
\Ob"du*rate\, v. t.
To harden. [Obs.]
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