LekhoriLekhoriFirm; unshakeable; unyielding; determined.
Broiles and Kirkley were adamant about getting out of the lawsuit, but Mike and Dee were equally adamant about not wanting to sign a letter of apology
Very difficult to break, pierce, or cut.
Unprotected matter, however adamant, would have been ground to dust ages ago.
An imaginary rock or mineral of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness.
This then is and alwayes hath ben the fashion of Worldlinges, & reprobate persons, to harden their hartes as an adamant stone, against anye thinge that shalbe tolde the for amendement of their lives, and for the savinge of their soules.
From Middle English adamant, adamaunt, from Latin adamantem, accusative singular form of adamās (“hard as steel”), from Ancient Greek ἀδάμας (adámas, “invincible”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + δαμάζω (damáz...
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An embodiment of impregnable hardness.
Actual life might seem to her so real that she could not detect the union of shadow and adamant that men call poetry.
A lodestone.
You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant: But yet you draw not iron, for all my heart Is true as steel. Leave you your power to draw, And I shall have no power to follow you.