obdurate
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Obdurate, he took the presidency of the Citizens' Union and organized a "Fusion Ticket."
From Time Magazine Archive
Obdurate, and insensible to suffering as Marble had ever appeared to me, I was not prepared to find him giving such evidence of feeling.
From Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale by Cooper, James Fenimore
Obdurate, ob′dū-rāt, adj. hardened in heart or in feelings: difficult to influence, esp. in a moral sense: stubborn: harsh.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
Obdurate wretch! too fierce, too fell to move The least kind yearnings of a mother's love!
From The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius
Obdurate, in Milton's time, was pronounced obdúrate, but to-day it is pronounced óbdurate.
From Stories from Tagore by Tagore, Rabindranath
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