H'ARDNESS, noun [See Hard.] Firmness; close union of the component parts; compactness; solidity; the quality of bodies which resists impression; opposed to softness and fluidity. 1. Difficulty to be understood. 2. Difficulty to be executed or accomplished; as the hardness of an enterprise. 3. Scarcity; penury; difficulty of obtaining money; as the hardness of the times. 4. Obduracy; impenitence; confirmed state of wickedness; as hardness of heart. 5. Coarseness of features; harshness of look; as hardness of favor. 6. Severity of cold; rigor; as the hardness of winter. 7. Cruelty of temper; savageness; harshness. The blame May hang upon your hardness 8. Stiffness; harshness; roughness; as the hardnesses of sculpture. 9. Closeness; niggardliness; stinginess. 10. Hardship; severe labor, trials or sufferings. Endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 2 Timothy 2:3.
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