Both Uses of
callous
in
The Call of the Wild
- His muscles became hard as iron, and he grew callous to all ordinary pain.†
Chpt 2 *
- In the excess of their own misery they were callous to the suffering of their animals.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(callous) heartless (cruel lack of concern for other's feelings)
or an alternative spelling for callus--thickened skin that comes from rubbing as when having calluses on the hands from doing much work with a shovel