Look up: adamant

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   adamant
   kind of stone inflexible 
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   adamant
   [adj] - not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course
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   Adamant
   archaic or obsolete terms > Stones & Minerals: A stone once believed to be impenetrable in its hardness. An extremely hard substance. Also used in Old English to mean magnet. As the name of any stone of impenetrable hardness it is often the name given to the diamond.
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   Adamant
   Ad'a·mant (ăd'ȧ*mănt) noun [ Middle English adamaunt , adamant , diamond, magnet, Old French adamant , Latin adamas , adamantis , the hardest metal, from Greek 'ada`mas , -antos ; 'a priv. + dama^,n to tame, subdue. In Middle English , from confusion with Latin adamare to love, be attached to, ...
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   adamant
   1. A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substance of extreme hardness; but in modern minerology it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness. 'Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield.' (Milton) ... 2. ...
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   adamant
   adamantine adjective impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; `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 tendency`
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   Adamant
   `Adamant` and similar words are used to refer to any especially hard substance, whether composed of diamond, some other gemstone, or some type of metal. Both `adamant` and `diamond` derive from the Greek word αδαμαÃ?‚ (`adamas`), meaning `untameable`. `Adamantite` and `adamantium` (a metallic name derived from the Neo-Latin ending `-ium`) are also common variants. Throughout ancient history, `adamantine` referred to anything that was made of...
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   Adamant
   • (n.) 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. • (n.) Lodestone; magnet.
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   adamant
   adamant Adam's aunt.
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