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obdurate
Pronunciation: /ˈɒbdjʊrət/
adjective
Stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or course of action.
Origin
Late
Middle English (originally in the sense ‘hardened in sin, impenitent’):
from Latin obduratus, past participle of obdurare, from ob- ‘in
opposition’ + durare ‘harden’ (from durus ‘hard’).
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The colonel was obdurate. Once he made a decision, no matter how rash, he was determined to follow through to the end.
