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Meaning of 'Adamant'
Meaning of 'Adamant' (Webster Dictionary)
1. 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.
Meaning of 'Adamant' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. adamant [ s]
[ s]Meaning (1):
- impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason
- impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason
Example in sentence:
- an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency;
- Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him;
- he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind
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