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adj
impenetrably hard or unbreakable; resembling diamond
His adamantine resolve never wavered under pressure.
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From Latin adamantinus, from Ancient Greek adamantinos (ἀδαμάντινος, 'of the hardest metal'), from adamas ('unconquerable, hardest substance'), from a- ('not') + damaō ('to subdue').
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