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.


(n.) Lodestone; magnet.



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Adamant   Adamantean   Adamantine   Rhadamanthine   Rhadamanthus