OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 1747

adamant

/ˈæd.ə.mənt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
abroquelarse • acérrimo • adamantino • categórico • diamantino • firme • impenetrable • inamovible • inflexible • inmovible • obstinado
Firm; unshakeable; unyielding; determined.
Broiles and Kirkley were adamant about getting out of the lawsuit, but Mike and Dee were equally adamant about not wanting to sign a letter of apology
Johan is determined to play the field and adamant about never committing.
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📚 noun • entry_id 1748

adamant

/ˈæd.ə.mənt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
adamante (disused)
An imaginary rock or mineral of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness.
As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead …
This then is and alwayes hath ben the fashion of Worldlinges, & reprobate persons, to harden their hartes as an adamant stone, against anye thinge that shalbe tolde the for amendem…
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