Meaning of adamantize | Babel Free

Definitions

To render (something) adamant; to harden; to strengthen.

rare, transitive

Examples

“I have known such things begun over the loan of a hymn-book, drawn closer by an exchange of cards, cemented by a morning call, adamantized by a walk, and transformed into a regular life-and-death affair by a proper number of cups of tea. It seems to me an interesting weakness.”

“" I wonder you don't marry, then, sir." " My time is past. Forty years of single blessedness have moulded my character and adamantized my resolutions. Besides, I am a poor man, and a wife is an expensive luxury. […]"”

“Modern science has formulated this in a canon of seeming austerity,—"The survival of the fittest." Oh, yes!—Nature is a disciplinarian. Her storms harden the rocks, and adamantize the mountains. Her tempests root the giant trees deeper, and strengthen the fiber of those that are young.”

“There must be a fusion of these ingredients, there must be form, there must be control of the material for some great conscious, or perhaps unconscious, end, and if we go on to adamantize our egg into a crystalline lucidity, it will reveal to us the shining truth that any supreme work of art is the product always, or almost always, of a great imagination, the echo of a lofty mind, or of a soul possessing some kind of greatness.”

“Yorkud and his Tunkati developed a crystal transport on their home we planet of Daegis. They found a way to adamantize diamond to withstand propagation in excess of fifty times the speed of light.”

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