Obduracy

Quick meaning: Obduracy is a noun meaning The state of being obdurate, intractable, or stubbornly inflexible.

Meaning

The state of being obdurate, intractable, or stubbornly inflexible.

Example Sentences

True mountain Liberty alone may heal The pain which Custom's obduracies bring.

Chanderpaul's obduracy might have broken lesser men, but Panesar more than matched him for relentlessness.

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.

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, [...]

Word Forms

• obduracies

Synonyms for obduracy

Depending on context, synonyms include unyieldingness, adamance.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include adamance, unyieldingness, obdurateness, obstinacy, inflexibleness, obstinance.

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