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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
adamantine
    adj 1: consisting of or having the hardness of adamant
    2: having the hardness of a diamond
    3: impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; "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 tendency"
       [syn: adamant, adamantine, inexorable, intransigent]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Adamantine \Ad`a*man"tine\, a. [L. adamantinus, Gr. ?.]
   1. Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant;
      incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as,
      adamantine bonds or chains.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Min.) Like the diamond in hardness or luster.
      [1913 Webster]

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