Definition of Adamancy

1. Noun. The property of being adamant. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Adamancy

1. unyielding hardness [n -CIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Adamancy

adage
adages
adagial
adagietto
adagiettos
adagio
adagios
adagissimo
adalimumab
adam
adam's apple
adam-and-eve
adamance
adamances
adamancies
adamancy (current term)
adamant
adamantane
adamantanes
adamantanethiol
adamantanoid
adamantean
adamantine
adamantine membrane
adamantinely
adamantinoma
adamantium
adamantly
adamantoblast
adamantoma

Literary usage of Adamancy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Treatment of Israel by the United Nations: Congressional Hearing edited by Benjamin A. Gilman (2000)
"I want to make a distinction between advocacy and adamancy. ... I don't see any great record of adamancy, and I raise this issue because we are going to ..."

2. The Story of the Woman's Party by Inez Haynes Gillmore (1921)
"A detailed account of the action of the Rules Committee proves the adamancy of Party control. It gives some idea of the obstacles which ingenious ..."

3. Voices of Liberation by Gerald J. Pillay (1993)
"... by means of books, representations, demonstrations, and in some places armed force provoked by the adamancy of white rule, carries the only real ..."

4. The Edinburgh Gazetteer, Or Geographical Dictionary ...: Accompanied by an Atlas (1822)
"Saona, called by the natives adamancy, once boasted a cacique, and subjects independent of Haiti, and was afterwards held in the right of the body of ..."

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