All 3 Uses of
obdurate
in
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- If any one wishes to be impressed with the soul-killing effects of slavery, let him go to Colonel Lloyd's plantation, and, on allowance-day, place himself in the deep pine woods, and there let him, in silence, analyze the sounds that shall pass through the chambers of his soul,—and if he is not thus impressed, it will only be because "there is no flesh in his obdurate heart."†
Chpt 2obdurate = stubbornly persistent
- He was artful, cruel, and obdurate.†
Chpt 4
- He was cruel enough to inflict the severest punishment, artful enough to descend to the lowest trickery, and obdurate enough to be insensible to the voice of a reproving conscience.
Chpt 4 *obdurate = showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings (and stubbornly persistent in doing that wrong)
Definition:
stubbornly persistent -- especially in wrongdoing
or more rarely (except in classic literature):
showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings
or more rarely (except in classic literature):
showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings