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Definition of Obduracy
1. Noun. Resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible.
Generic synonyms: Firmness, Firmness Of Purpose, Resoluteness, Resolution, Resolve
Derivative terms: Adamant, Unyielding
Definition of Obduracy
1. n. The duality or state of being obdurate; invincible hardness of heart; obstinacy.
Definition of Obduracy
1. Noun. The state of being obdurate, intractable, or stubbornly inflexible. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Obduracy
1. the quality or an instance of being obdurate [n -CIES]
Medical Definition of Obduracy
1. The duality or state of being obdurate; invincible hardness of heart; obstinacy. "Obduracy and persistency." "The absolute completion of sin in final obduracy." (South) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Obduracy
Literary usage of Obduracy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of India from the Earliest Ages by James Talboys Wheeler (1869)
"... might have been expected from the cunning and obduracy of a petted woman.
Her first object was to wheedle the Maharaja into making a promise ..."
2. Memoirs of the Court of England During the Reign of the Stuarts: Including by John Heneage Jesse (1855)
"... George Hamilton become her Lovers—Romantic Attachments of Francis Digby and
Rotier the Medallist—Charles distracted by her obduracy—The Duke of Richmond ..."
3. Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Drydens's by Plutarch (1885)
"And, secondly, by the obduracy with which he resisted numerous embassies and
supplications, addressed in propitiation of his single anger and offence, ..."
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