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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