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adamants

adamants is the plural of adamant.

Meaning of adamant

Noun

adamant (plural adamants)

  1. An unspecified mineral or rock of virtually impenetrable hardness.
    • This then is and alwayes hath ben the fashion of Worldlinges, & reprobate persons, to harden their hartes as an adamant stone, against anye thinge that shalbe tolde the for amendement of their lives, and for the savinge of their soules.1582, Robert Parsons, chapter VIII, in The First Booke of the Christian Exercise, Appertayning to Resolution, G. Flinton
    1. (historical, poetic) In later use: diamond.
    2. (archaic, poetic) In later use: a lodestone.
      • You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant: / But yet you draw not iron, for all my heart / Is true as steel. Leave you your power to draw, / And I shall have no power to follow you.c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First...
    3. (obsolete except historical) A substance that neutralizes lodestones.
      • An Adamant hinders the attractive vertue, as also Garlick rubbed on the Magnet; for its attractive faculty is not so valid, but it may be easily deluded, obscured, and superated […]1657 [1608], Jean de Renou, translated by Richard Tomlinson, A Medicinal Dispensatory […], page 418
  2. (figuratively) Chiefly in of adamant: an embodiment of impenetrable hardness; the quality of not being easily destroyed or overcome; impenetrableness, imperviousness, impregnableness; also, of a person: the quality of not being easily affected emotionally; impassiveness, unmovableness.
    • Actual life might seem to her so real that she could not detect the union of shadow and adamant that men call poetry.1907 April, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, chapter XV, in The Longest Journey, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC
  3. (figuratively, obsolete) A person or thing having the quality of attracting or drawing; a lodestone, a magnet.

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Questions about adamants

What is adamants the plural of?
Adamants is the plural of adamant.

Words near adamants in the dictionary

  1. adamantoids
  2. adamantoma
  3. adamantomas
  4. adamantone
  5. adamantones
  6. adamants
  7. adamantyl
  8. adamantylamide
  9. adamantylamides
  10. adamantylamine
  11. adamantylamines

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