Both Uses
callous
in
The Call of the Wild
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- His muscles became hard as iron, and he grew callous to all ordinary pain.†
p. 42.1 *
- In the excess of their own misery they were callous to the suffering of their animals.†
p. 112.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(callous as in: callous indifference) heartless (cruel lack of concern for other's feelings)
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(2)
(callous as in: a thick callous) thickened skin that comes from rubbing as when having calluses on the hands from doing much work with a shovel
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)