Dictionary

obduracy en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈɑbdʊɹəsi/ (US)
• /-djʊ-/ (UK)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /-djʊ-/ (US)
• /ˈɒb.dʊ.ɹə.si/ (UK)

Etymology

From obdur(ate) + -acy.

Meanings

1. The state of being obdurate, intractable, or stubbornly inflexible.
   • Chanderpaul's obduracy might have broken lesser men, but Panesar more than matched him for relentlessness. 2007 June 20, Simon Hughes, “Chanderpaul finally outwitted by master”, in Telegraph.co.uk:
   • By this hand thou, thinkeſt me as farre in the diuels booke, as thou and Falſtaffe, for obduracie and perſiſtancie, let the end trie the man, [...] c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
   • It might also serve to condemn the obduracy and hard-heartedness of the Jews, who relented not, when even the earth trembled and the rocks rent. 1713, Nehemiah Walter, A discourse concerning the wonderfulness of Christ, Boston: Eleazer Phillips, page 156:
   • True mountain Liberty alone may heal The pain which Custom's obduracies bring. 1812, Percy Bysshe Shelley, On Leaving London for Wales, lines 5–6:
   • She snatched up a stick and hit Cora across the rump with it. The stick was rotten and broke, without having caused Cora to budge an inch. Exasperated at an image of obduracy, the old woman scrabbled up another stick and began whacking at Cora with it[.] 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 132:

Forms

Relateds

obdurate

Translations (16)

es obstinación (The state of being obdurate, intractable, or stubbornly inflexible) · el ισχυρογνωμοσύνη (The state of being obdurate, intractable, or stubbornly inflexible) · fi jääräpäisyys (The state of being obdurate, intractable, or stubbornly inflexible) · ga aindiúid (The state of being obdurate, intractable, or stubbornly inflexible) · bg закоравялост (The state of being obdurate, intractable, or stubbornly inflexible) · fr entêtement (The state of being obdurate, intractable, or stubbornly inflexible) · pl upór (The state of being obdurate, intractable, or stubbornly inflexible) · de Verstocktheit (The state of being obdurate, intractable, or stubbornly inflexible) · ca obstinació (The state of being obdurate, intractable, or stubbornly inflexible) · el πώρωση (The state of being obdurate, intractable, or stubbornly inflexible) · fr obstination (The state of being obdurate, intractable, or stubbornly inflexible) · pt obstinação (The state of being obdurate, intractable, or stubbornly inflexible) · fi itsepintaisuus (The state of being obdurate, intractable, or stubbornly inflexible) · nl koppigheid (The state of being obdurate, intractable, or stubbornly inflexible) · el σκληροκαρδία (The state of being obdurate, intractable, or stubbornly inflexible) · ru упря́мство (The state of being obdurate, intractable, or stubbornly inflexible)