obdurance

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noun

hardness; stubbornness

Scrabble 14

Meanings

nounobdurance (uncountable)
  1. uncountablehardness; stubbornness

    Charles had little consideration for his young wife's misery, and the queen's advisers went on encouraging their mistress's obdurance.

    1995, Charles Carlton, Charles I, the Personal Monarch, page 75
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