Associations to the word «Obdurate»

Wiktionary

OBDURATE, adjective. Stubbornly persistent, generally in wrongdoing; refusing to reform or repent.
OBDURATE, adjective. (obsolete) Physically hardened, toughened.

Dictionary definition

OBDURATE, adjective. Stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing.
OBDURATE, adjective. Showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "his flinty gaze"; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart".

Wise words

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca