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adamantine /ˌadəˈmantʌɪn /adjective literaryUnable to be broken: adamantine chains figurative her adamantine will...- Here is Prometheus, the rebel: nail him to the rock; secure him on this towering summit fast in the unyielding grip of adamantine chains.
- They need hope - a kind of unflappable, adamantine hope.
- I am possessed, as much as the next man, of that stiff upper lip, steely resolve and adamantine backbone which make us British positively megalithic in the face of danger.
Rhymes Byzantine, elephantine |