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Definition of Adamantine

1. Adjective. Consisting of or having the hardness of adamant.

2. Adjective. Having the hardness of a diamond.

3. Adjective. Impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason. "An intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency"

Definition of Adamantine

1. a. Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains.

Definition of Adamantine

1. Adjective. Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains. ¹

2. Adjective. Like the diamond in hardness or luster. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Adamantine

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Adamantine

1. 1. Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains. 2. Like the diamond in hardness or luster. Origin: L. Adamantinus, Gr. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Adamantine

adagissimo adalimumab adam adam's apple adam-and-eve adamance adamances adamancies adamancy adamant

adamantane adamantanes adamantanethiol adamantanoid adamantean adamantine (current term) adamantine membrane adamantinely adamantinoma adamantium

adamantly adamantoblast adamantoma adamants adamantyl adamantylamine adamantyls adamaunt adambulacral adament

Literary usage of Adamantine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Chemistry: On the Basis of Mr. Nicholson's, in which the ...by Andrew Ure, William Nicholson by Andrew Ure, William Nicholson (1821)
"Splendent, metallo-adamantine. Fracture uneven. Streak 1i. ... It consists of semi'_ and adamantine. Cleavage threefold. Frac- metallic feebly glimmering ..."

2. Journal of the British Dental Association by British Dental Association (1894)
"UNDER the title of epithelioma adamantine MM. Nove-Josserand and Berard describe a form of solid tumour of the jaw which arises in connection with a ..."

3. Analytical Essays Towards Promoting the Chemical Knowledge of Mineral Substances by Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1801)
"This truth has been confirmed, in an eminent degree, by the adamantine The native places of this ... The denomination of adamantine fptr, given to it by ..."

4. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1841)
"The Bishop's J NO. xii. contrary way by adamantine bonds of inevitable ' ' ' necessity ? «piy. (g) " Lastly, howsoever TH cries out, that God cannot sin, ..."

5. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1904)
"... AS AN OLD ENEMY, THE adamantine PINCUSHION?" ble (empty) cologne-bottles and the monumental inkstand entombing a defunct fly ? As might be expected, ..."

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