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obdurate
English
Etymology
Mid-15th century, from Latin obduratus (“hardened”), form of obd?r? (“harden”), from ob- (“against”) + d?r? (“harden, render hard”), from durus (“hard”). Compare durable, endure.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??bd????t/, /??bdj???t/, /??bd????t/, /-?t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??bd(j)???t/, /??bd(j)???t/, /-?t/
- Sometimes accented on the second syllable, especially by the older poets.
Adjective
obdurate (comparative more obdurate, superlative most obdurate)
- Stubbornly persistent, generally in wrongdoing; refusing to reform or repent.
- 1593, Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book I:
- ... sometimes the very custom of evil making the heart obdurate against whatsoever instructions to the contrary ...
- 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, Act I, sc. 4:
- Art thou obdurate, flinty, hard as steel,
- Nay, more than flint, for stone at rain relenteth?
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I, lines 56–8
- ... round he throws his baleful eyes
- That witness'd huge affliction and dismay
- Mixt with obdurate pride and stedfast hate:
- 1818, Percy Bysshe Shelley,"The Revolt of Islam", canto 4, stanza 9, lines 1486-7:
- But custom maketh blind and obdurate
- The loftiest hearts.
- 1593, Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book I:
- (obsolete) Physically hardened, toughened.
- Hardened against feeling; hard-hearted.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 13:
- I fear the gentleman to whom Miss Amelia's letters were addressed was rather an obdurate critic.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 13:
Synonyms
- (stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing): hardened, hard-hearted, impertinent, intractable, unrepentant, unyielding, recalcitrant
Derived terms
- obduracy
Related terms
- durable, duration
- endure, endurance, enduring
Translations
Verb
obdurate (third-person singular simple present obdurates, present participle obdurating, simple past and past participle obdurated)
- (transitive, obsolete) To harden; to obdure.
References
Anagrams
- taboured
Latin
Verb
obd?r?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of obd?r?
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unbudgeable
English
Etymology
un- +? budgeable
Adjective
unbudgeable (comparative more unbudgeable, superlative most unbudgeable)
- That cannot be made to budge; immovable, fixed.
Derived terms
- unbudgeably
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