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Tuesday, May 15, 2007

"ADAMANT"

ADAMANT
(Adjective)
Meaning:
  • A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness.
  • An extremely hard substance.
  • Unyielding; unbreakable. (see images both are adamant)
  • Stubborn (adamant can be used for signifying someone's stubborn behavior also)

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