Adamant

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Lodestone; magnet.

II. Adamant ·noun 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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