obdurance

English

Noun

obdurance (uncountable)

  1. hardness; stubbornness
    • 1995, Charles Carlton, Charles I, the Personal Monarch, page 75:
      Charles had little consideration for his young wife's misery, and the queen's advisers went on encouraging their mistress's obdurance.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.