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English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: adamant
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: adamant
adamant
adj : not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course;
unsusceptible to persuasion;
“he is adamant in his
refusal to change his mind”;
“Cynthia was inexorable;
she would have none of him”- W.Churchill;
“an
intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal
tendancy” [syn:
adamantine,
inexorable,
intransigent]
adamant
n : very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem [syn:
diamond]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Adamant
Adamant
\Ad"a*mant\ ([a^]d"[.a]*m[a^]nt), n. [OE. adamaunt,
adamant, diamond, magnet, OF. adamant, L. adamas, adamantis,
the hardest metal, fr. Gr. 'ada`mas, -antos; 'a priv. +
dama^,n to tame, subdue. In OE., from confusion with L.
adamare to love, be attached to, the word meant also magnet,
as in OF. and LL. See
Diamond,
Tame.]
1. A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a
name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme
hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical
signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for
the embodiment of impenetrable hardness.
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Opposed the rocky orb
Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield. --Milton.
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2. Lodestone; magnet. [Obs.]
“A great adamant of
acquaintance.” --Bacon.
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As true to thee as steel to adamant. --Greene.
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