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obduracy|ˈɒbdjʊrəsɪ, əbˈdjʊərəsɪ|
[f. obdurate: see -acy 3, and cf. late L. obdūrātio.]
The state or quality of being obdurate.
1. Stubbornness, obstinacy; obstinate hardness of heart, relentlessness; persistence in evil.
1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, ii. ii. 50 Thou think'st me as farre in the Diuels Booke, as thou, and Falstaffe, for obduracie and persistencie. 1670G. H. Hist. Cardinals ii. ii. 161 He is so constant in his resolutions, that it passes almost to obduracy. 1720Welton Suffer. Son of God II. xvi. 436 To break the Obduracy of my Harden'd and ungrateful Heart. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. (1864) I. ii. iv. 238 If Rome at times was courted with promising submission, at others it was opposed with inflexible obduracy.
2. The state of being physically hardened. rare.
1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 514 They [caruncles] are found to acquire the obduracy of a rigid scirrhus. |