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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Adamant \Ad"a*mant\ ([a^]d"[.a]*m[a^]nt), n. [OE. adamaunt, adamant, diamond, magnet, OF adamant, L. adamas, adamantis the hardest metal, fr Gr 'ada`mas, -antos; 'a priv. + dama^,n to tame, subdue. In OE., from confusion with L. adamare to love, be attached to the word meant also magnet, as in OF and LL See {Diamond}, {Tame}.] 1. A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness. Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield. --Milton. 2. Lodestone; magnet. [Obs.] ``A great adamant of acquaintance.'' --Bacon. As true to thee as steel to adamant. --Greene. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: adamant adj : not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course; unsusceptible to persuasion; "he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind"; "Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him"- W.Churchill; "an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendancy" [syn: {adamantine}, {inexorable}, {intransigent}] n : very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem [syn: {diamond}] From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Adamant, VT Zip code(s): 05640 From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Adamant (Heb. shamir), Ezek. 3:9. The Greek word adamas means diamond. This stone is not referred to but corundum or some kind of hard steel. It is an emblem of firmness in resisting adversaries of the truth (Zech. 7:12), and of hard-heartedness against the truth (Jer. 17:1). From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: ADAMANT, n. A mineral frequently found beneath a corset. Soluble in solicitate of gold.
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