Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Adamantine.
- noun A trade-name for boron in the crystallized state and in fine powder, used as an extremely hard abrasive and polishing material.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Adamantine.
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- adjective obsolete
adamantine
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective consisting of diamonds or resembling diamonds
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Examples
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The result is diamantine and must be heard to be believed.
A symphonic life, played with one hand By Mindy Aloff 2010
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The result is diamantine and must be heard to be believed.
A symphonic life, played with one hand By Mindy Aloff 2010
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He could see, rearing up above the waves, the spires and minarets and twisted towers and diamantine domes, and even, in the misty height, the very palace of the High Shivantak—and the whole image ghostly, fringed with refractive rainbows.
Do Comets Dream? S. P. Somtow 2003
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Glittering on the seventh parapet, on a plinth of gold and diamantine, sat the vessel itself, a perfect sphere of shiny silvery metal.
Do Comets Dream? S. P. Somtow 2003
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The subterranean flames roared and crackled; the hills were shaken to their centre; the caves were heaving in their depths, and fresh, glittering, golden, diamantine lumps came ever gushing from the fused and seething mass.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 Various
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The united age of this crown - diamantine couple amount to _one hundred and seventy-eight years_!
Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
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The final polish can soon be imparted by means of a small boxwood slip, or flattened peg-wood, and diamantine and alcohol.
A Treatise on Staff Making and Pivoting Containing Complete Directions for Making and Fitting New Staffs from the Raw Material Eugene Edward Hall
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The polishing is effected by means of diamantine and alcohol.
A Treatise on Staff Making and Pivoting Containing Complete Directions for Making and Fitting New Staffs from the Raw Material Eugene Edward Hall
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There was that about Count Giraldi, a diamantine brilliancy, a something hard and crystalline, a positiveness, an incisiveness of view and reflection, which on first acquaintance decided me not to take him into my confidence.
The Fool Errant Maurice Hewlett 1892
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Mine had made roses of the sweetest hue bloom on Catherine's cheeks and strewn into the flowery blue of her eyes drops of diamantine dew.
The Queen Pedauque Anatole France 1884
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