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English Dictionary: adamant	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for adamant
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
adamant adj 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" Synonym(s): adamant, adamantine, inexorable, intransigent n very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem [syn: diamond, adamant]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Adamant \Ad"amant\ ([acr]d"[adot]m[acr]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.] [bd]A great adamant of acquaintance.[b8] --Bacon. As true to thee as steel to adamant. --Greene.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Adamant, VT Zip code(s): 05640
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
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).