different between obduracy vs obfirmation

English

Etymology

From obdurate +? -cy.

Noun

obduracy (plural obduracies)

1. The state of being obdurate, intractable, or stubbornly inflexible.
   • 1713, Nehemiah Walter, A discourse concerning the wonderfulness of Christ, Eleazer Phillips (Boston), page 156,

     It might also serve to condemn the obduracy and hard-heartedness of the Jews, who relented not, when even the earth trembled and the rocks rent.

   • 1812, Percy Bysshe Shelley, "On Leaving London for Wales," ln 5-6,

     True mountain Liberty alone may heal
     The pain which Custom's obduracies bring.

   • 2007, Simon Hughes, "Chanderpaul finally outwitted by master" Telegraph.co.uk, 20 June,

     Chanderpaul's obduracy might have broken lesser men, but Panesar more than matched him for relentlessness.

Related terms

• obdurate (adjective)

Translations

References

• Webster, Noah (1828) , “obduracy”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
• obduracy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “obduracy” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)

English

Etymology

Latin obfirmatio.

Noun

obfirmation (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, rare) Hardness of heart; obduracy.
   • 1655, Jeremy Taylor, Unum Necessarium

     obfirmation and obstinacy of mind