obdurateness

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We are laughing for her — for all the indignities her characters have endured and their obdurateness in the face of them — and we are laughing for ourselves and our own hopes of indestructibility.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 27, 2014

George's obdurateness, coming when she was most in need of kisses, hurt her.

From Once Aboard the Lugger by Hutchinson, A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth)

Yet it abides a flint as much as 'twere Before it touched the water, or came there Its hard obdurateness is not abated, 'Tis not at all by water penetrated.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by Bunyan, John

For it is only by many acts of attention and even of subservience that the suitor's relatives break down the obdurateness of the fianc�'s relatives and make them relax the severity of their original demands.

From The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir by Garvan, John M.

No stable did we pass so poor, none so mean, that he was ashamed to pause and offer to enter with meek obdurateness.

From An American Girl Abroad by Trafton, Adeline