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adamaunt

adamaunt is the obsolete form of adamant.

Meaning of adamant

Adjective

adamant (comparative more adamant, superlative most adamant)

  1. Firm; unshakeable; unyielding; determined.
    • Broiles and Kirkley were adamant about getting out of the lawsuit, but Mike and Dee were equally adamant about not wanting to sign a letter of apology2002, Charles Moncrief, Wildcatters: The True Story of how Conspiracy, Greed and the IRS ..., page 195
  2. Very difficult to break, pierce, or cut.
    • Unprotected matter, however adamant, would have been ground to dust ages ago.1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, page 34

See all 8 meanings of adamant

Forms of adamaunt

comparativemore adamaunt
superlativemost adamaunt

Questions about adamaunt

What is adamaunt the obsolete form of?
Adamaunt is the obsolete form of adamant.

Words near adamaunt in the dictionary

  1. adamantyls
  2. Adamany
  3. Adamanys
  4. Adamatzky
  5. Adamatzkys
  6. adamaunt
  7. Adamawa
  8. Adamawa-Eastern
  9. Adamawa-Ubangi
  10. adambulacra
  11. adambulacral

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