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Meanings of obduracy in English

Portuguese
obstinação
Catalan
tossuderia

Resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible.

        obstinação
        Usage of obduracy in English
        1
        The struggle between them, Frances constant in her obduracy, lasted several months.
        She Stands Accused
        2
        But a glance at conditions may explain the cause of his obduracy.
        The Yoke / A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Chil...
        3
        He did not like this mulishness, this almost ostentatious look of obduracy.
        Misery
        4
        That equivocation and obduracy are being egged on by venomous Irish revisionism.
        The Irish Times
        5
        He is inflexible, yet his very obduracy increases my love a hundred-fold.
        Taken Alive
        6
        He sat in massive obduracy, relentlessly watching his sister's worn white face.
        Greatheart
        7
        You see how easy it is to forget the obduracy of the past?
        11/22/63
        8
        Nor need you expatiate to me upon the obduracy of the Aylett pride.
        At Last: A Novel
        9
        But hers was not the calmness of obduracy, but of innocence.
        Rattlin the Reefer
        10
        Her father no longer poured hurricanes of wrath upon her for her obduracy.
        The Swindler and Other Stories
        11
        Chipperfield's Hepworth Gallery has a rock-like obduracy that is anything but.
        The Guardian
        12
        Forgive me my obduracy, as from my soul I forgive you.
        Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel
        13
        Mr. Graham recovered; but his old pride and obduracy did not come back.
        The Telegraph Boy
        14
        His obduracy made no impression on her, for she was free from doubts.
        The Law-Breakers and Other Stories
        15
        In the obduracy of his heart, Cain spake: O Lord of the world!
        The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1
        16
        Even Nick Compton, for whom obduracy might be a middle name, took a view.
        The Guardian
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        Portuguese
        obstinação
        Obduracy through the time
        Obduracy across language varieties
        United Kingdom
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