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adamant
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noun (n)
- very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem(noun.substance)source: wordnet30
- 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.(noun)source: webster1913
adjective satellite (s)
- impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason(adj.all)Example:
He is adamant in his refusal to change his mind.
source: wordnet30
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