Obdurate

a.	1.	Hardened in feelings, esp. against moral or mollifying influences; unyielding; hard-hearted; stubbornly wicked. The very custom of evil makes the heart obdurate against whatsoever instructions to the contrary. - Hooker. Art thou obdurate, flinty, hard as steel, Nay, more than flint, for stone at rain relenteth? - Shak.
	2.	Hard; harsh; rugged; rough; intractable. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart. - Cowper.
v. t.	1.	To harden.

Adj.	1.	obdurate - stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing Synonyms: cussed, obstinate, unrepentant
	2.	obdurate - showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart" Synonyms: flinty, stony

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