obduracy
English
Etymology
Noun
obduracy (plural obduracies)
- The state of being obdurate, intractable, or stubbornly inflexible.
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- 1713, Nehemiah Walter, A discourse concerning the wonderfulness of Christ, Eleazer Phillips (Boston), page 156,
- It might also serve to condemn the obduracy and hard-heartedness of the Jews, who relented not, when even the earth trembled and the rocks rent.
- 1812, Percy Bysshe Shelley, "On Leaving London for Wales," ln 5-6,
- True mountain Liberty alone may heal
The pain which Custom's obduracies bring.
- True mountain Liberty alone may heal
- 2007, Simon Hughes, "Chanderpaul finally outwitted by master" Telegraph.co.uk, 20 June,
- Chanderpaul's obduracy might have broken lesser men, but Panesar more than matched him for relentlessness.
Related terms
- obdurate (adjective)
Translations
The state of being obdurate, intractable, or stubbornly inflexible
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References
- obduracy in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
- “obduracy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “obduracy”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)