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obdurateness
Part of speech: NounThe state of being obdurate; invincible hardness of heart; obstinacy.
Usage examples "obdurateness":- Yet it abides a flint as much as 'twere Before it touched the water, or came there Its hard obdurateness is not abated, 'Tis not at all by water penetrated. - "The Works of John Bunyan Volume 3", John Bunyan.
- No stable did we pass so poor, none so mean, that he was ashamed to pause and offer to enter with meek obdurateness. - "An American Girl Abroad", Adeline Trafton.
- There is an obdurateness of obstinacy against all the men, and the books, and the doctrines, and the precepts, and the practices that are in any way connected with spiritual religion that does not come out even in the obstinate man's family life. - "Bunyan Characters First Series", Alexander Whyte.