English English Dictionary

English English Dictionary

The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg

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Adamant (n.)
A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness.
Adamant (n.)
Lodestone; magnet.