obdurate

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Stubbornly persistent, generally in wrongdoing; refusing to reform or repent.

   “[…] sometimes the very custom of evil making the heart obdurate against whatsoever instructions to the contrary […]”

2. sıfat Physically hardened, toughened.

   “The past is obdurate for the same reason a turtle's shell is obdurate: because the living flesh inside is tender and defenseless.”

3. sıfat Hardened against feeling; hard-hearted.

   “I fear the gentleman to whom Miss Amelia's letters were addressed was rather an obdurate critic.”

4. fiil To harden; to obdure.