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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 - Other Definitions

  • (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.

  • (n.) Lodestone; magnet.

Adamant - 4 Partial Matches Found (Page 1 of 1)

Adamantean Adamantine Rhadamanthine Rhadamanthus
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