ADAMANT
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Ad"a*mant (ăd"&adot_;*mănt), n. [OE. adamaunt, adamant, diamond, magnet, OF. adamant, L. adamas, adamantis, the hardest metal, fr. Gr. 'ada`mas, -antos; 'a priv. + dama^,n to tame, subdue. In OE., from confusion with L. adamare to love, be attached to, the word meant also magnet, as in OF. and LL. See Diamond, Tame.] 1. 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.
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Opposed the rocky orb
Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield.
Milton.
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2. Lodestone; magnet. [Obs.] “A great adamant of acquaintance.” Bacon.
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As true to thee as steel to adamant.
Greene.
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