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Webster 1913 Edition
Adamantine
Adˊa-man′tine
,Adj.
[L.
adamantinus
, Gr. [GREEK].] 1.
Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated;
as,
. adamantine
bonds or chains2.
(Min.)
Like the diamond in hardness or luster.
Webster 1828 Edition
Adamantine
ADAMANT'INE
,Adj.
Adamantine Spar, a genus of earths, of three varieties. The color of the first is gray, with shades of brown or green; the form when regular, a hexangular prism, two sides large and four small, without a pyramid; its surface striated, and with a thin covering of white mica, interspersed with particles of red felspar; its fracture, foliaceous and sparry. The second variety is whiter, and the texture more foliaceous. The third variety is of a reddish brown color. This stone is very hard, and of difficult fusion.
A variety of corrundum.
Definition 2024
adamantine
adamantine
English
Adjective
adamantine (comparative more adamantine, superlative most adamantine)
- Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I:
- Him the Almighty Power
- Hurld headlong flaming from th' Ethereal Skie
- With hideous ruine and combustion down
- To bottomless perdition, there to dwell
- In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire,
- Who durst defie th' Omnipotent to Arms.
- 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
- For two hours they stand; Bouillé's sword glittering in his hand, adamantine resolution clouding his brows[.]
- 1984, Gayle Rubin, "Thinking Sex" in Carole S. Vance, Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality (Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul), 267-319.
- Sex law is the most adamantine instrument of sexual stratification and erotic persecution.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I:
- Like the diamond in hardness or luster.
Translations
incapable of being broken
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like a diamond
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