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adamantine::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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| Synonyms | adamant, inexorable, intransigent |
adamantine::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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Examples of adamantine
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Adamantine adherence to political principle is nothing new, of course.
From the theatlantic.com
It occasionally occurs in crystals with a non-metallic adamantine luster.
From the en.wikipedia.org
As if struck by the adamantine sword of the Scorpion King, THE ROCK of ages is cleft for me.
From the time.com
Zeus gave him an adamantine sword and Hades'helm of darkness to hide.
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Unlike its common green in other accounts, adamantine in Dwarf Fortress is a very bright blue.
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Once across the rivers an adamantine gate, guarded by Cerberus, forms the entrance to the kingdom.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
His fiscal discipline turned out to be flexible but, for better or worse, Mr Osborne's seems adamantine.
From the economist.com
And conservative pundits are people of adamantine principle compared with conservative politicians.
From the economist.com
Adamantine has, throughout ancient history, referred to anything that was made of a very hard material.
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- Consisting of or having the hardness of adamant
- Adamant: 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"
- Adamantine is a veneer developed by The Celluloid Manufacturing Company of New York City, covered by U.S. Patent number 232,037, dated September 7, 1880. Seth Thomas Clock Company purchased the right to use the adamantine veneer in 1880. ...
- (adamantinely) In an adamantine way
- Brilliant, the luster of diamond also cerussite and anglesite
- Refers to the surface luster of a diamond.
- (48) of or like adamant; very hard; unbreakable.
- Pertaining to luster. Transparent minerals with a very high luster are said to have an adamantine luster.
- "Diamond-like luster and hardness," derived from the Greek word adamas (invincible) for diamonds.
