adamant

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

AD'AMANT, noun [ Gr.; Latin adamas; a word of Celtic origin.] A very hard or impenetrable stone; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness. The name has often been given to the load stone; but in modern mineralogy, it has no technical signification.
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