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"sense": "determined; unshakeable; unyielding",
"word": "adamantino"
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"word": "inflexível"
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"sense": "determined; unshakeable; unyielding",
"word": "intolerante"
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"sense": "determined; unshakeable; unyielding",
"word": "neclintit"
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"roman": "nepodátlivyj",
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"word": "непода́тливый"
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"ref": "1582, Robert Parsons, chapter 8, in The first booke of the Christian exercise, appertayning to resolution, G. Flinton",
"text": "This then is and alwayes hath ben the fashion of Worldlinges, & reprobate persons, to harden their hartes as an adamant stone, against anye thinge that shalbe tolde the for amendement of their lives, and for the savinge of their soules.",
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},
{
"ref": "1611, King James Translators, Ezekiel 3:9",
"text": "As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead …"
}
],
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"An imaginary rock or mineral of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness."
],
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[
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},
{
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, XV [Uniform ed., p. 163]",
"text": "Actual life might seem to her so real that she could not detect the union of shadow and adamant that men call poetry."
}
],
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"An embodiment of impregnable hardness."
],
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"embodiment"
],
[
"impregnable",
"impregnable"
]
]
},
{
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],
"glosses": [
"A lodestone."
],
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"lodestone",
"lodestone"
]
],
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"(archaic) A lodestone."
],
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"archaic"
]
},
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"English terms with historical senses",
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1657 [1608], Jean de Renou, translated by Richard Tomlinson, A Medicinal Dispensatory […], page 418",
"text": "An Adamant hinders the attractive vertue, as also Garlick rubbed on the Magnet; for its attractive faculty is not so valid, but it may be easily deluded, obscured, and superated […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Daryn Lehoux, What Did the Romans Knows? An Inquiry into Science and Worldmaking, page 139",
"text": "But we know from book 37 of the Natural History that adamant works on magnets in exactly the same way that garlic does: robbing them of their power to attract.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A substance that neutralizes lodestones."
],
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[
"neutralize",
"neutralize"
]
],
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"(obsolete or historical) A substance that neutralizes lodestones."
],
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"historical",
"obsolete"
]
}
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"ipa": "/ˈæd.ə.mənt/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈæd.ə.mænt/"
},
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"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
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"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "adamaunt"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "rock or mineral",
"word": "adamant"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "rock or mineral",
"word": "adamantium"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "rock or mineral",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "adamante"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "rock or mineral",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Adamant"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "rock or mineral",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "adhmaint"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "rock or mineral",
"word": "adamantino"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kongō",
"sense": "rock or mineral",
"word": "金剛"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "rock or mineral",
"word": "adamantas"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "rock or mineral",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "adamant"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "rock or mineral",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "adamante"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "adamant",
"sense": "rock or mineral",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "адамант"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "rock or mineral",
"word": "adamantino"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "rock or mineral",
"word": "adamant"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "rock or mineral",
"word": "adamantina"
}
],
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"adamant"
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