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Definition of Rocklike
1. Adjective. Hard as granite. "A granitic fist"
Definition of Rocklike
1. Adjective. Resembling a rock. ¹
2. Adjective. Resembling rock music. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rocklike
1. resembling a rock (a large mass of stone) [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rocklike
Literary usage of Rocklike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain (1896)
"They soon began to perceive depths in her that they had not suspected ; and then
her manifest sincerity and the rocklike steadfastness of her convictions ..."
2. Bulletin by Federal Board for Vocational Education, United States (1917)
"If not, only the points that explain the presence of slag nnil Impurities need
be touched on. Iron ore.—Iron is found as hard rocklike substance and also in ..."
3. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"... and then her manifest sincerity and the rocklike steadfastness of her convictions
were forces which cowed levity, and it could not maintain its ..."
4. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1913)
"... lying out there beyond all consciousness, beyond the utmost reach of the soul,
in iron strength, in rocklike rigidity, more insensible to the voice of ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1863)
"... which a stream wound in many a maze, sometimes amidst jagged rocklike crags,
sometimes through low grassy banks, round which the doer were grouping. ..."
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