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Definition of Adamancy
1. unyielding hardness [n -CIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adamancy
Literary usage of Adamancy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Treatment of Israel by the United Nations: Congressional Hearing edited by Benjamin A. Gilman (2000)
"I want to make a distinction between advocacy and adamancy. ... I don't see any
great record of adamancy, and I raise this issue because we are going to ..."
2. The Story of the Woman's Party by Inez Haynes Gillmore (1921)
"A detailed account of the action of the Rules Committee proves the adamancy of
Party control. It gives some idea of the obstacles which ingenious ..."
3. Voices of Liberation by Gerald J. Pillay (1993)
"... by means of books, representations, demonstrations, and in some places armed
force provoked by the adamancy of white rule, carries the only real ..."
4. The Edinburgh Gazetteer, Or Geographical Dictionary ...: Accompanied by an Atlas (1822)
"Saona, called by the natives adamancy, once boasted a cacique, and subjects
independent of Haiti, and was afterwards held in the right of the body of ..."
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