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Adamantine

adjective
1.
Consisting of or having the hardness of adamant.
2.
Having the hardness of a diamond.
3.
Impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason.  Synonyms: adamant, inexorable, intransigent.  "Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him" , "An intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency"





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"Adamantine" Quotes from Famous Books



... circumstances he had a few, fine, adamantine rules for conduct, which he was going to steadfastly apply, and he thought no more of the girl's feelings under them than one thinks of the inanimate parcel one is cording with what one ...
— Six Women • Victoria Cross
... Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition; there to dwell In adamantine ...
— The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' • Thomas Orchard
... successful efforts to save his soul from its awful doom. The infinite majesty of God's will, the law of the universe, had been insulted by disobedience. The only just retribution was the suffering of an endless death. The adamantine sanctities of God's government made forgiveness impossible. Thus all men were lost, to be the prey of blackness, and fire, and the undying worm, through the remediless ages of eternity. Just then God had pity on the souls he had made, and himself came to the rescue. In the person ...
— The Destiny of the Soul - A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life • William Rounseville Alger
... you have made up your mind," cried the lady hysterically, who knew from a twelve years' experience that John Temple's made-up mind was like an adamantine wall to ...
— Hubert's Wife - A Story for You • Minnie Mary Lee
... the might of England flushed To anticipate the scene; And her van the fleeter rushed O'er the deadly space between. "Hearts of oak!" our captain cried; when each gun From its adamantine lips Spread a death-shade round the ships, Like the hurricane eclipse Of ...
— The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8 • Various


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