obduration
/ɒbdjʊˈreɪʃn/ /ɒbdʒʊˈreɪʃn/noun
The action of making or becoming obdurate, hardened in sin, or insensible to moral influence; the fact or condition of being obdurate; hard-heartedness, stubborn impenitence.
Origin
Late Middle English; earliest use found in Vices and Virtues. From post-classical Latin obduration-, obduratio hardening of the heart, physical hardening from classical Latin obdūrāt-, past participial stem of obdūrāre + -iō. Compare Middle French, French obduration, Catalan obduració.
- neutralist
- neutralistic
- neutrality
- neutralization
- neutralize
- neutralizer
- neutrally
- neutrally buoyant
- neutral monism
- neutral monist
- Neutral Nation
- neutralness
- neutral orange
- neutral point
- neutral red
- neutral salt
- neutral temperature
- neutral tint
- neutral-tinted
- neutral violet
- neutral vowel
- neutral wire
- Neutralysis
- neutral zone
- neutretto