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    Adamant , n. [OE. adamaunt, adamant, diamond, magnet, OF. adamant, L. adamas, adamantis, the hardest metal, fr. Gr. ἀδάμας, -αντος; ἀ priv. + δαμᾷν 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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