adamantine
Speech parts
1. adamantine - Noun
2. adamantine - Adjective
3. adamantine - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains.
Like the diamond in hardness or luster.
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Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world.
Some old poet's grand imagination is imposed on us as adamantine everlasting truth, and God's own word! Pythagoras says, truly enough, "A true assertion respecting God, is an assertion of God"; but we may well doubt if there is any example of this in literature.
Every word is an adamantine shell which encloses a great explosive force.
Every word is an adamantine shell which encloses a great explosive force. To discover its meaning you must let it burst inside you like a bomb and in this way liberate the soul which it imprisons.
Larkin the man is separated from us historically by changes in the self. For his generation, you were what you were and that was that. It made you unswervable and adamantine. My father had this quality. I don't. None of us do. There are too many forces at work, there are too many fronts to cover.
It 'The Ancient Mariner' is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.