obdure
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English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]obdure (comparative more obdure, superlative most obdure)
- (obsolete) Synonym of obdurate
- 1613, Thomas Heywood, “[Prologue]”, in The Brazen Age, […], London: […] Nicholas Okes, […], →OCLC, , signature B, recto:
- The Ages in their grovvth vvax worſe & vvorſe. / The firſt vvas pretious, full of golden reſt. / Siluer ſucceeded; good, but not ſo pure: / Then loue and harmleſſe luſts might currant paſſe: / The third that follovves vve finde more obdure, / And that vve title by the Age of Braſſe.
Verb
[edit]obdure (third-person singular simple present obdures, present participle obduring, simple past and past participle obdured)
- (obsolete) To harden.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- This saw his hapless foes, but stood obdur'd.
- 1626, Joseph Hall, Saint Paul's Combat. Part II:
- […] this spiritual edge shall either turn again, or, through our weak wieldance, not enter the stubborn and thick hide of obdured hearts […]
References
[edit]- “obdure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.