acharné

comparative more acharné · superlative most acharné

1. archaicRelentlessly opposed; irreconcilable.

   Aherne is acharné against him, and so is Sullivan: I am much cooler than either of them.

   1827, Theobald Wolfe Tone, Memoirs of Theobald Wolfe Tone, page 349

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   He is acharné against Prussia, cannot bear her alliance with Austria, or tolerate the idea that Austria and Prussia should be able to defend the north of Germany.

   1862, Supplementary Despatches, Correspondence, And Memoranda of Field Marshal Arthur Ducke of Wellington, K.G.

   What though now they are acharné, yet brothers and sisters must at last be reconciled, and they will give each other the preference to French, Spaniards, etc.

   1982, Marion Ward, Forth, page 52

   There were no serious attempts to call it off and the warring powers remained acharné — to use a fashionable word of the day — until the end.

   2012, E. S. Turner, Dear Old Blighty, →ISBN