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ad⋅a⋅mant
[ad-uh-muh
nt, -mant] 
–adjective
| 1. | utterly unyielding in attitude or opinion in spite of all appeals, urgings, etc. |
| 2. | too hard to cut, break, or pierce. |
–noun
| 3. | any impenetrably or unyieldingly hard substance. |
| 4. | a legendary stone of impenetrable hardness, formerly sometimes identified with the diamond. |
Origin:
bef. 900; ME < OF adamaunt < L adamant- (s. of adamas) hard metal (perh. steel), diamond < Gk, equiv. to a- a- 6 + -damant- verbal adj. of damân to tame, conquer; r. OE athamans (< ML) and ME aymont < MF aimant < VL *adimant- < L
bef. 900; ME < OF adamaunt < L adamant- (s. of adamas) hard metal (perh. steel), diamond < Gk, equiv. to a- a- 6 + -damant- verbal adj. of damân to tame, conquer; r. OE athamans (< ML) and ME aymont < MF aimant < VL *adimant- < L
Related forms:
ad⋅a⋅man⋅cy [ad-uh-muhn-see] , ad⋅a⋅mance, noun
[ad-uh-muhn-see] , ad⋅a⋅mance, noun ad⋅a⋅mant⋅ly, adverb
Synonyms:
1. inflexible, rigid, uncompromising.
1. inflexible, rigid, uncompromising.
Antonyms:
1. flexible, easygoing, yielding.
1. flexible, easygoing, yielding.
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| ad·a·mant (ād'ə-mənt, -mānt') adj. Impervious to pleas, appeals, or reason; stubbornly unyielding. See Synonyms at inflexible. n.
[From Middle English, a hard precious stone, from Old French adamaunt, from Latin adamās, adamant-, from Greek, unconquerable, hard steel, diamond; see demə- in Indo-European roots.] ad'a·man·cy n., ad'a·mant·ly adv. |
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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. Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield. --Milton. 2. Lodestone; magnet. [Obs.] "A great adamant of acquaintance." --Bacon. As true to thee as steel to adamant. --Greene.
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Language Translation for : adamant
Spanish:
inflexible,
German:
unnachgiebig,
Japanese:
確固とした
adamant (adj.)
1387, "hard, unbreakable," from earlier noun (O.E. aðamans) meaning "a very hard stone," from L. adamantem (nom. adamas), from Gk. adamas (gen. adamantos) "unbreakable," the name of a hypothetical hardest material, perhaps lit. "invincible," from a- "not" + daman "to conquer, to tame" (see tame), or else a word of foreign origin altered to conform to Gk. Applied in antiquity to white sapphire, magnet, steel, emery stone, and especially diamond (see diamond). Fig. sense of "unshakeable" first recorded 1677. Adamantine (adj.) first recorded 1382.
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Adamant
(Heb. shamir), Ezek. 3:9. The Greek word adamas means diamond. This stone is not referred to, but corundum or some kind of hard steel. It is an emblem of firmness in resisting adversaries of the truth (Zech. 7:12), and of hard-heartedness against the truth (Jer. 17:1).
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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