obdurately
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ob·du·rate
(ŏb′do͝o-rĭt, -dyo͝o-)adj.
1. Not changing in response to argument or other influence; obstinate or intractable: "Everyone in the region has been obdurate in water negotiations with everyone else" (Marq de Villiers).
2.
a. Hardened in wrongdoing or wickedness; stubbornly impenitent: "obdurate conscience of the old sinner" (Sir Walter Scott).
b. Hardened against feeling; hardhearted: an obdurate miser.
[Middle English obdurat, from Late Latin obdūrātus, past participle of obdūrāre, to harden, from Latin, to be hard, endure : ob-, intensive pref.; see ob- + dūrus, hard; see deru- in Indo-European roots.]
ob′du·rate·ly adv.
ob′du·ra·cy (-do͝or-ə-sē, -dyo͝or-), ob′du·rate·ness n.
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Adv. | 1. | obdurately - in a stubborn unregenerate manner; "she remained stubbornly in the same position" |
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obdurately
adv (= stubbornly) → hartnäckig; (= hardheartedly) → unerbittlich; she remained obdurately silent → sie verharrte verbissen in Schweigen
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