Definition of Obduracy

1. Noun. Resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible.

Exact synonyms: Adamance, Unyieldingness
Generic synonyms: Firmness, Firmness Of Purpose, Resoluteness, Resolution, Resolve
Derivative terms: Adamant, Unyielding

Definition of Obduracy

1. n. The duality or state of being obdurate; invincible hardness of heart; obstinacy.

Definition of Obduracy

1. Noun. The state of being obdurate, intractable, or stubbornly inflexible. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Obduracy

1. the quality or an instance of being obdurate [n -CIES]

Medical Definition of Obduracy

1. The duality or state of being obdurate; invincible hardness of heart; obstinacy. "Obduracy and persistency." "The absolute completion of sin in final obduracy." (South) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Obduracy

obcompressed
obconic
obconical
obcordate
obdeltoid
obdiplostemonous
obdiplostemony
obdormition
obdt
obduct
obducted
obducting
obduction
obducts
obduracies
obduracy (current term)
obdurate
obdurated
obdurately
obdurateness
obduratenesses
obdurates
obduration
obdurations
obdure
obdured
obdures
obduring
obe
obeah

Literary usage of Obduracy

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

1. The History of India from the Earliest Ages by James Talboys Wheeler (1869)
"... might have been expected from the cunning and obduracy of a petted woman. Her first object was to wheedle the Maharaja into making a promise ..."

2. Memoirs of the Court of England During the Reign of the Stuarts: Including by John Heneage Jesse (1855)
"... George Hamilton become her Lovers—Romantic Attachments of Francis Digby and Rotier the Medallist—Charles distracted by her obduracy—The Duke of Richmond ..."

3. Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Drydens's by Plutarch (1885)
"And, secondly, by the obduracy with which he resisted numerous embassies and supplications, addressed in propitiation of his single anger and offence, ..."

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