adamantine
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adamantine englanniksi
(synonym of).
Made of (l).
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)
(senseid) Incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; impenetrable, unbreakable.
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(RQ:Marston Scourge of Villanie)
(RQ:Nashe Lenten Stuffe)
(RQ:Affinati Munday Dumbe)
(RQ:Camden Holland Britain)
(RQ:More Philosophical Writings)
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost) the Almighty Povver / Hurld headlong flaming from th' Ethereal Skie / VVith hideous ruine and combuſtion dovvn / To bottomleſs perdition, there to dvvell / In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire, / VVho durſt defie th' Omnipotent to Arms.
(RQ:Homer Pope Iliad)
(RQ:Cowper Task)
(RQ:Coleridge Biographia Literaria)'s writings; (..) took possession of me as with a giant's hand.
(RQ:Sigourney Poems)
(RQ:Twain Tom Sawyer)
(quote-book) & Kegan Paul|Kegan Paul|page=288|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/pleasuredangerex0000unse/page/288/mode/1up|isbn=978-0-7100-9974-7|passage=Sex law is the most adamantine instrument of sexual stratification and erotic persecution. The state routinely intervenes in sexual behavior at a level that would not be tolerated in other areas of social life. Most people are unaware of the extent of sex law, the quantity and qualities of illegal sexual behavior, and the punitive character of legal sanctions.
Difficult to defeat or prevail over; unshakable, unyielding.
(RQ:Carlyle French Revolution) Bouillé's sword glittering in his hand, adamantine resolution clouding his brows; (..)
(RQ:Macaulay History of England) was proved by every test; (..) by the imminent and constant risk of assassination, a risk which has shaken very strong nerves, a risk which severely tried even the adamantine fortitude of Cromwell|(quote-gloss) Cromwell.
(RQ:Ruskin Sesame and Lilies) (quote-gloss), the injustice of the judges, and the corrupt cowardice of the brother, are opposed to the victorious truth and adamantine purity of a woman.
Of a person: refusing to change one's mind; obstinate, stubborn.
(quote-journal) III.|journal=The Universalist and Ladies' Repository|The Ladies’ Repository: A Universalist Monthly Magazine for the Home Circle|location=Boston, Mass.|publisher=Church of America|Universalist Publishing House,(nb...)|volume=XLV|page=191|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=F34UAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA191|column=1|oclc=173882657|passage=I thought this last information would soften the young man, but he was adamantine. He informed me that it was against all bank rules for a woman to draw from her husband's deposit without his order.
(senseid) Having the quality of attracting or drawing; attractive, magnetic.
(RQ:Nashe Christs Teares)
(RQ:Dekker Magnificent Entertainment)
(RQ:Erasmus Darwin Botanic Garden)! magnetic Lord! / King of the provv, the plovvſhare, and the ſvvord! / True to the pole, by thee the pilot guides / His ſteady helm amid the ſtruggling tides, (..)
(senseid) Like diamond in lustre; bright, lustrous, shiny; also, of a lustre: like that of a mineral with a high index such as diamond.
(quote-journal)|year_published=1965|volume=XII|issue=54|page=47|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/mineralogical-magazine_1898-06_12_54/page/47/mode/1up|issn=0369-0148|oclc=1060564833|passage=Raspite, a new dimorphous form of lead tungstate, is found on some of the stolzite specimens as brownish or yellow monoclinic crystals with a strong adamantine lustre.
(synonym of).
(inflection of)
(feminine plural of)
Relating to (l); (l).