Definition of "obdurateness" [obdurateness]

• The characteristic of being obdurate; stubbornness. (noun)

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• "Such obdurateness, truculence and refusal to accept reality is to be applauded."
• "Mr. Hard-Heart, thou art here indicted by the name of Hard-Heart (an intruder upon the town of Mansoul), for that thou didst most desperately and wickedly possess the town of Mansoul with impenitency and obdurateness; and didst keep them from remorse and sorrow for their evils, all the time of their apostasy from and rebellion against the blessed King Shaddai."
• "Had not God laid obdurateness and stubbornness upon his spirit, we had long since, in all probability, been ruined."