obduracy

[Eng. obdura(te); -cy.] The quality or state of being obdurate or hardened against moral influences; hardne of heart; stubbornne ; obstinate persistence in sin or wicked IMG:content-0181.png:[blocks in formation] obedience ob'-du-rāte, v. t. [OBDURATE, a.] To make or render obdurate; to harden. "The Holy Ghost sayth, I will obdurate the hart of Pharao."-Barnes: Workes, p. 279. ob'-du-rate-ly, adv. [Eng. obdurate; -ly.] In an obdurate, hard-hearted, or obstinate manner; with obduracy. ob'-du-rate-ne , s. [English obdurate; -ne .] The quality or state of being obdurate; obduracy, stubbornne . "This reason of his was grounded upon the obdurate . ne of men's hearts."-Hammond: Works , iv. 687. *ob-du-rā-tion, s. [Lat. obduratio , from obdu ratus obdurate (q. v.).] Obduracy; hardne of heart; stubbornne . "To what an height of obduration will sinne lead a man."-Bp. Hall: Contempl.; Plagues of Egypt. *õb-düre', v. t. & i. [Latin obduro =to harden; ob- , and duro =to make hard; durus =hard.] A. Trans.: To make hard or hardened; to render obdurate; to harden. ( Milton : P. L. , ii. 568.) B. In trans.: To become hard or obdurate. "Sensele of good, as stones they soon obdure." Heywood. Troia Britannica , 1,602. *ob-düre', a . [OBDURE, v.] Hard, hardened, obdurate. *ob-düred, a. [OBDURE, v.] Hard, obdurate. *ob-düred-ne , s. [Eng. obdured; -ne .] The quality or state of being obdurate; obduracy. "Through obdured ne and infidelity it will needs perish."-Bp. Hall: Sermon on Acts ii. 37, 38, 40. *õb-düre'-ne , s. [English obdure ; -ne .] The quality of being obdurate; obduracy. "Oh the sottishne and obdure ne of this sonne of perdition."- Bp . Hall : Contempl.; Christ Betrayed, Õ-be-ah, adj . [A West African word.] [ОВІ.) (For def. see extract.) "The term Obeah, Obiah, or Obia (for it is variously written) we conceive to be the adjective, and Obe, or Obi, the noun substantive."- B. Edwards: Brit. West Indies (ed. 1819), ii. 107.