| 释义 |
obdurateness
(see the adj.)
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The state or quality or being obdurate.
1. = obduracy 1.
1618T. Gainsford Perk. Warbeck in Select. fr. Harl. Misc. (1793) 74 If the duchess continued in her obdurateness, and would not desist from her feminine rages, and terrible prosecutions. 1708Brit. Apollo No. 23. 3/1 With fervent heat m' obdurateness he blames. 1720Welton Suffer. Son of God II. xix. 532 How often have I felt this Obdurateness of Heart within!
2. = obduracy 2. rare.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 44/1 [Bandages] must be softe..because through the obduratnes therof, they might hurte that parte. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 146 It presently acquired a stony obdurateness. |