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OBDURACY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does obduracy mean? 

OBDURACY (noun)
  The noun OBDURACY has 1 sense:

1. resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexibleplay

  Familiarity information: OBDURACY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


OBDURACY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

adamance; obduracy; unyieldingness

Hypernyms ("obduracy" is a kind of...):

firmness; firmness of purpose; resoluteness; resolution; resolve (the trait of being resolute)


 Context examples 


I was completely bewildered between Mr. Spenlow and Mr. Jorkins, as to which of them really was the objecting partner; but I saw with sufficient clearness that there was obduracy somewhere in the firm, and that the recovery of my aunt's thousand pounds was out of the question.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)



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