OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 17298

obdurate

/ˈɒbdʒʊɹɪt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
obdurado • obduro
Stubbornly persistent, generally in wrongdoing; refusing to reform or repent.
[…] round he throws his baleful eyes That witness'd huge affliction and dismay Mixt with obdurate pride and stedfast hate:
[…] sometimes the very custom of evil making the heart obdurate against whatsoever instructions to the contrary […]