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Words found in poetry

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adamantine


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PRONUNCIATION:

(ad-uh-MAN-teen/tin)

MEANING:

adjective:
1. Unyielding; inflexibly firm.
2. Resembling adamant or diamond in hardness or luster.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin adamant (hard metal, steel, diamond, etc.), from Greek adamas (adamant), from a- (not) + daman (to conquer). Earliest documented use: around 1225.

USAGE:

“To bottomless perdition, there to dwell
In adamantine chains and penal fire,
Who durst defy th’ Omnipotent to arms.”
John Milton; Paradise Lost; 1667.

See more usage examples of adamantine in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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