obduracy

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

OB'DURACY, noun [See Obdurate.] Invincible hardness of heart; impenitence that cannot be subdued; inflexible persistency in sin; obstinacy in wickedness. God may by almighty grace hinder the absolute completion of sin in final obduracy
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