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| ad·a·mant [ áddəmənt, áddə mànt ] |
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set in opinion: very determined and not influenced by appeals to reconsider a position or decision
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legendary stone: a legendary, extremely hard stone, sometimes identified as diamond or lodestone
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| [Pre-12th century. Via Old French adamaunt and Latin adamant- "adamant, steel, diamond" < Greek adamas "unbreakable" < daman "break down"] |
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 ad·a·mant·ly adverb |
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