obduredness

English

Alternative forms

• obdureness

Etymology

obdured +‎ -ness

Noun

obduredness (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) hardness
   • 1646, Joseph Hall, The Balm of Gilead:

     the humble and true penitence of the one saved him out of thy hands; the obduredness and falseheartedness of the other gave him up as a prey to thy malice

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “obduredness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)