"harden someone's heart" meaning in English

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          "text": "Seeing so much suffering for so long hardened his heart."
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          "text": "She hardened her heart against his inevitable pleas."
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          "ref": "1611, Authorized King James translation of Exodus 7:3–4",
          "text": "And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, and my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments."
        },
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          "text": "Farrell had been to prison, and he thought the daily malignancy he had witnessed there had hardened his heart.",
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        "To make someone more resistant to something."
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        "(idiomatic, usually reflexive, dated) To make someone more resistant to something."
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          "roman": "kokoro o oni ni suru",
          "sense": "make someone more resistant to something",
          "word": "心を鬼にする"
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        },
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        },
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          "text": "And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, and my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments."
        },
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        "To make someone more resistant to something."
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        "(idiomatic, usually reflexive, dated) To make someone more resistant to something."
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      "roman": "kokoro o oni ni suru",
      "sense": "make someone more resistant to something",
      "word": "心を鬼にする"
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