Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being obdurate; especially, the state of being hardened against moral influences; extreme hardness of heart; rebellious persistence in wickedness.
- noun Synonyms See
obdurate .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The duality or state of being obdurate; invincible hardness of heart; obstinacy.
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- noun The state of being
obdurate ,intractable , orstubbornly inflexible .
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- noun resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible
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Examples
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But there are also the white clergy (and rabbi); usually, they were pusillanimous and hesitant to move more than a step or two beyond their conservative members, most of whom supported the egregious Jew-turned-Episcopalian Mayor Henry Loeb, who rivals in obduracy George W. Bush.
Balkinization 2006
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But there are also the white clergy (and rabbi); usually, they were pusillanimous and hesitant to move more than a step or two beyond their conservative members, most of whom supported the egregious Jew-turned-Episcopalian Mayor Henry Loeb, who rivals in obduracy George W. Bush.
Balkinization 2006
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Even so, events could turn against Republican Machiavellians inasmuch as their obduracy is the best thing Democrats have going for them now that Obamamania has all but disappeared.
Andrew Levine: Republican Machiavellians: Scourge of Democrats -- For Tea Partiers, Not So Much 2010
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Even so, events could turn against Republican Machiavellians inasmuch as their obduracy is the best thing Democrats have going for them now that Obamamania has all but disappeared.
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Hugo says the sinner is "bound down by obduracy of soul, and by the penalty of future damnation"; the grace of God frees man from the darkness brought on by sin, while the absolution of the priest delivers him from the penalty which sin imposes — "The malice of sin is best described as obduracy of heart, which is first broken by sorrow, that later, in confession, the sin itself, i.e. the penalty of damnation, be remitted."
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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All however agree, that no man who ever sat on the bench deserved the imputation of "obduracy" less than Baron Graham.
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As we all know, because President Obama, UK Foreign Secretary Miliband and the serried ranks of the EU keep telling us, it is Israel’s obduracy which is holding up a resolution of the Middle East impasse.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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As we all know, because President Obama, UK Foreign Secretary Miliband and the serried ranks of the EU keep telling us, it is Israel’s obduracy which is holding up a resolution of the Middle East impasse.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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As we all know, because President Obama, UK Foreign Secretary Miliband and the serried ranks of the EU keep telling us, it is Israel’s obduracy which is holding up a resolution of the Middle East impasse.
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Hisagency has been criticized for obduracy and for not reining in environmental zealots.
Henry J. Stern: The Pete Grannis Dismissal: A New Low Henry J. Stern 2010
gerwitz commented on the word obduracy
Encountered as an apt description of Donald Rumsfeld in Robert Draper's article for GQ.
May 19, 2009