obdurate

suomi-englanti sanakirja

obdurate englannista suomeksi

1. paatunut

1. itsepintainen

2. kovitettu, lujitettu

2. Verbi

obdurate englanniksi

1. Stubbornly persistent, generally in wrongdoing; refusing to reform or repent.

(synonyms)

2. (RQ:Hooker Laws) sometimes the very custom of evil making the heart obdurate against whatsoever instructions to the contrary (..)

3. (RQ:Shakespeare Venus and Adonis)

4. (RQ:Milton Paradise Lost) round he throws his baleful eyesThat witness'd huge affliction and dismayMixt with obdurate pride and stedfast hate:|year=1873

5. (RQ:Shelley Revolt of Islam)

6. (quote-book)|title=(w)|publisher=Ballantine Books|location=New York|year_published=1963|page=220|passage=Late the next afternoon Tarzan and his Waziri returned with the first load of “belongings,” and when the party saw the ancient ingots of virgin gold they swarmed upon the ape-man with a thousand questions; but he was smilingly obdurate to their appeals—he declined to give them the slightest clew as to the source of his immense treasure.

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8. Physically hardened, toughened.

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10. Hardened against feeling; hard-hearted.

11. (RQ:Thackeray Vanity Fair)

12. To harden; to obdure.

13. (inflection of)