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obduracy

/ˈɒb.dʊ.ɹə.si/US/ˈɑbdʊɹəsi/

obduracy noun: the state of being obdurate, intractable, or stubbornly inflexible.

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Noun

obduracy (plural obduracies)

  1. The state of being obdurate, intractable, or stubbornly inflexible.
    • By this hand thou, thinkeſt me as farre in the diuels booke, as thou and Falſtaffe, for obduracie and perſiſtancie, let the end trie the man, [...]c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600...
    • It might also serve to condemn the obduracy and hard-heartedness of the Jews, who relented not, when even the earth trembled and the rocks rent.1713, Nehemiah Walter, A discourse concerning the wonderfulness of Christ, Boston: Eleazer Phillips, page 156

obduracy meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

obduracy in Tamil

கல் நெஞ்சம், முரண்டு, விடாப்பிடி

obduracy in Urdu

اکڑ, اصرار, سرکشی

obduracy in Malayalam

ചിത്തകാഠിന്യം, കഠോരഹൃദയം, മൂർഖത്വം

obduracy in Kannada

ಮೊಂಡುತನ, ಹಠಮಾರಿತನ ಜಗ್ಗದಿರುವಿಕೆ, ಪಶ್ಚಾತ್ತಾಪ ಪಡದಿರುವಿಕೆ
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obduracy in Sanskrit
खिल khila

Examples of obduracy in a sentence

  • Exasperated at an image of obduracy, the old woman scrabbled up another stick and began whacking at Cora with it[.]1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 132:
  • Chanderpaul's obduracy might have broken lesser men, but Panesar more than matched him for relentlessness.2007 June 20, Simon Hughes, “Chanderpaul finally outwitted by master”, in Telegraph.co.uk:

Forms of obduracy

pluralobduracies

Origin of obduracy

From obdur(ate) + -acy.

Questions about obduracy

What does obduracy mean?
Obduracy means the state of being obdurate, intractable, or stubbornly inflexible.
What is obduracy in Tamil?
Obduracy in Tamil is கல் நெஞ்சம், முரண்டு, விடாப்பிடி. See Obduracy meaning in Tamil.
How do you use obduracy in a sentence?
Exasperated at an image of obduracy, the old woman scrabbled up another stick and began whacking at Cora with it[.]
What part of speech is obduracy?
Obduracy is a noun.
How do you pronounce obduracy?
Obduracy is pronounced /ˈɒb.dʊ.ɹə.si/ (UK).
What is the plural of obduracy?
The plural of obduracy is obduracies.

Words near obduracy in the dictionary

  1. obducting
  2. obduction
  3. obductions
  4. obducts
  5. obduracies
  6. obduracy
  7. obdurance
  8. obdurant
  9. obdurantly
  10. obdurate
  11. obdurated

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Adapted from Wiktionary: obduracy (page history and authors); obduracy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); obduracy (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); obduracy (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); obduracy (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); खिल (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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