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adamancy

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ad·a·mant  (d-mnt, -mnt)
adj.
Impervious to pleas, appeals, or reason; stubbornly unyielding. See Synonyms at inflexible.
n.
1. A stone once believed to be impenetrable in its hardness.
2. An extremely hard substance.

[From Middle English, a hard precious stone, from Old French adamaunt, from Latin adams, adamant-, from Greek, unconquerable, hard steel, diamond; see dem- in Indo-European roots.]

ada·man·cy n.
ada·mant·ly adv.


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However, when it comes to his adamancy in not returning to the negotiating table without a freeze on settlement construction, we should give credit where credit is due.
Indeed, such movements did not exist at first, when Israel was negotiating with the Palestinian "moderates", but have emerged "thanks" to Israel's adamancy, stalling, and lack of seriousness in implementing the agreements reached with those "moderates".
Cezanne's portrait, which took more than a hundred sittings to produce and still dissatisfied its author, looks stern and thickly coagulated and laborious, suggesting a mutual recalcitrance, a certain resistant adamancy passing between the two men.
 
 
 
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