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obdurance

obdurance noun: hardness; stubbornness.

Noun

obdurance (uncountable)

  1. hardness; stubbornness
    • Charles had little consideration for his young wife's misery, and the queen's advisers went on encouraging their mistress's obdurance.1995, Charles Carlton, Charles I, the Personal Monarch, page 75

Questions about obdurance

What does obdurance mean?
Obdurance means hardness; stubbornness.
What part of speech is obdurance?
Obdurance is a noun.

Words near obdurance in the dictionary

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

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