Obdurate

Definition of Obdurate

Ob´du`rate
a.1.Hardened in feelings, esp. against moral or mollifying influences; unyielding; hard-hearted; stubbornly wicked.
The very custom of evil makes the heart obdurate against whatsoever instructions to the contrary.
- Hooker.
Art thou obdurate, flinty, hard as steel,
Nay, more than flint, for stone at rain relenteth?
- Shak.
2.Hard; harsh; rugged; rough; intractable.
There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart.
- Cowper.
v. t.1.To harden.

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