obdurate: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

Obdurate comes from the past participle of the Latin verb obdūrāre, a derivative of the the adjective dūrus “hard.” In Classical Latin obdurare meant “to harden, be hard,” and also “to hold out, endure.” In Late and Christian Latin, the verb m...

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