obdurately

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).

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.

obdurately - in a stubborn unregenerate manner; "she remained stubbornly in the same position"

cussedly, mulishly, obstinately, pig-headedly, stubbornly

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obdurately

adv (= stubbornly) → hartnäckig; (= hardheartedly) → unerbittlich; she remained obdurately silent → sie verharrte verbissen in Schweigen

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