adamantine
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adamantine (comparative more adamantine, superlative most adamantine)
- Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I:
- Him the Almighty Power
- Hurld headlong flaming from th' Ethereal Skie
- With hideous ruine and combustion down
- To bottomless perdition, there to dwell
- In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire,
- Who durst defie th' Omnipotent to Arms.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I:
- Like the diamond in hardness or luster.
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adamantine f.
- Feminine plural form of adamantino
[edit] Latin
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adamantine
- vocative masculine singular of adamantinus
