WOD : obdurate

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Word of the Day for Sunday February 9, 2003

obdurate \OB-duh-rit; -dyuh-\, adjective:
1. a. Hardened in wrongdoing; stubbornly wicked. b. Hardened
in feelings; hard-hearted.
2. Resistant to persuasion; unyielding.
3. Hard; harsh; rugged; rough.

The obdurate conscience of the old sinner.
--Sir Walter Scott, [1]Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft

The King appearing obdurate, she abandons her plea.
--Ethan Mordden, [2]Coming Up Roses

My chronic nastiness and obdurate refusal to look on the
bright side of things goes far beyond garden-variety
misanthropy.
--Joe Queenan, [3]My Goodness

To remain obdurate before authority, to display one's
loyalty to the collective, to be a zealous student
wholeheartedly eager to deepen one's grasp of
doctrine--these were qualities that bore witness precisely
to the personal, to the individual.
--Milovan Djilas, [4]Fall of the New Class

The root system that supports such irrepressibleness
appears confined to five inches of soil between scrubby
trees and obdurate stone.
--Mary Parker Buckles, [5]Margins: A Naturalist Meets Long
Island Sound
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Obdurate derives from the past participle of Latin obdurare,
"to be hard against," from ob-, "against" + durus, "hard."

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now this is a word i'll use.