Note: Sometimes accented on the second syllable, especially by the
older poets.
There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart. Cowper.
Syn. — Hard; firm; unbending; inflexible; unyielding; stubborn; obstinate; impenitent; callous; unfeeling; insensible; unsusceptible. — Obdurate, Callous, Hardened. Callous denotes a deadening of the sensibilities; as. a callous conscience. Hardened implies a general and settled disregard for the claims of interest, duty, and sympathy; as, hardened in vice. Obdurate implies an active resistance of the heart and will aganst the pleadings of compassion and humanity. — Ob"du*rate*ly, adv. — Ob"du*rate*ness, n.
OBDURATE
Ob"du*rate, v. t.
Defn: To harden. [Obs.]
OBDURATION
Ob"du*ra"tion, n. Etym: [L. obduratio.]
Defn: A hardening of the heart; hardness of heart. [Obs.]
OBDURE
Ob*dure", v. t.
Defn: To harden. [Obs.] Milton.
OBDURE; OBDURED
Ob*dure", Ob*dured", a.
Defn: Obdurate; hard. [Obs.]
This saw his hapless foes, but stood obdured. Milton.