Meaning of adamant | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An unspecified mineral or rock of virtually impenetrable hardness.
2. firm, steady, secure
3. In later use: diamond.
   historical, poetic
4. steadfast, unwavering, unswerving, firm
5. In later use: a lodestone.
   archaic, poetic
6. A substance that neutralizes lodestones.
7. strong, assertive (uncompromising, unyielding)
8. Chiefly in of adamant: an embodiment of impenetrable hardness; the quality of not being easily destroyed or overcome; impenetrableness, imperviousness, impregnableness; also, of a person: the quality of not being easily affected emotionally; impassiveness, unmovableness.
   figuratively
9. strong (promising)
10. A person or thing having the quality of attracting or drawing; a lodestone, a magnet.
    figuratively, obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead […]”

“But this was a finale she ever avoided: an offer, like the rock of adamant in Sinbad's voyages, finishes the attraction by destroying the vessel; […]”

“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.”

“An Adamant hinders the attractive vertue, as also Garlick rubbed on the Magnet; for its attractive faculty is not so valid, but it may be easily deluded, obscured, and superated […]”

“But we know from book 37 of the Natural History that adamant works on magnets in exactly the same way that garlic does: robbing them of their power to attract.”

“Actual life might seem to her so real that she could not detect the union of shadow and adamant that men call poetry.”

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