"adamancy" meaning in All languages combined

See adamancy on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: adamancies [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} adamancy (usually uncountable, plural adamancies)
  1. The property of being adamant. Tags: uncountable, usually
    Sense id: en-adamancy-en-noun-wKvH67KW Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Knowing the stubbornness and adamancy of born-again Christians, they're more likely to write off Borhek off as \"fallen,\" and accuse her of succumbing to the arguments of Satan.",
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          "ref": "2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 405:",
          "text": "I stuck my nose in the air, realizing too late that it was a borrowed gesture – one I’d been using for years in moments of pride or adamancy – and that it properly belonged to the woman sitting opposite me.",
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