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Meaning of "adamancy" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ADAMANCY

adamancy  [ˈædəmənsɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ADAMANCY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Adamancy is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ADAMANCY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of adamancy in the English dictionary

The definition of adamancy in the dictionary is a state of resoluteness.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ADAMANCY


adiathermancy
ˌædɪəˈθɜːmənsɪ
agency
ˈeɪdʒənsɪ
athermancy
æˈθɜːmənsɪ
clamancy
ˈklæmənsɪ
clemency
ˈklɛmənsɪ
consistency
kənˈsɪstənsɪ
consultancy
kənˈsʌltənsɪ
currency
ˈkʌrənsɪ
diathermancy
ˌdaɪəˈθɜːmənsɪ
dormancy
ˈdɔːmənsɪ
efficiency
ɪˈfɪʃənsɪ
emergency
ɪˈmɜːdʒənsɪ
frequency
ˈfriːkwənsɪ
inclemency
ɪnˈklɛmənsɪ
potency
ˈpəʊtənsɪ
pregnancy
ˈprɛɡnənsɪ
tendency
ˈtɛndənsɪ
transparency
trænsˈpærənsɪ
vacancy
ˈveɪkənsɪ
vehemency
ˈviːɪmənsɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ADAMANCY

adagio
Adam
Adam´s ale
Adam´s apple
Adam´s wine
Adam´s-needle
adamance
adamant
adamantean
adamantine
adamantly
Adamawa
Adami
Adamite
Adamitic
Adamkus
Adamov
Adams
Adams-Stokes syndrome
adamsite

WORDS THAT END LIKE ADAMANCY

aeromancy
axinomancy
bibliomancy
cartomancy
chiromancy
cleromancy
coscinomancy
crithomancy
dactyliomancy
fancy
geomancy
hieromancy
hydromancy
necromancy
oenomancy
omphalomancy
oneiromancy
pyromancy
spodomancy
theomancy
zoomancy

Synonyms and antonyms of adamancy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «adamancy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ADAMANCY

Find out the translation of adamancy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of adamancy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «adamancy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

坚强
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

adamancy
570 millions of speakers

English

adamancy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

adamancy
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الاصرار
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

adamancy
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

adamancy
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

adamancy
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

adamancy
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Adamancy
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

adamancy
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

断固とし
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

adamancy
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Adamancy
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

adamancy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

adamancy
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मत्सर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

adamancy
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

adamancy
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

adamancy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

adamancy
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

adamancy
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

adamancy
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

adamancy
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

adamancy
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

adamancy
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of adamancy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ADAMANCY»

The term «adamancy» is normally little used and occupies the 123.267 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ADAMANCY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «adamancy» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «adamancy» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about adamancy

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ADAMANCY»

Discover the use of adamancy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to adamancy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Treatment of Israel by the United Nations
I want to make a distinction between advocacy and adamancy. The Administration has an excellent advocacy position on two issues, first on payment of U.N. arrearages and second on bringing Israel into WEOG. I don't see any great record of ...
Benjamin A. Gilman, 1999
2
Smart Services: Competitive Information Strategies, ...
The Threat of Adamancy Another way competition is created by internal forces is when service businesses take a position of adamancy in how they deal with their suppliers. Very few organizations nowadays are entirely self-sufficient in terms ...
Deborah C. Sawyer, 2002
3
Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series
145 The additional indubitable circumstance of plaintiff's election to disaffirm shows credible corroboration of her adamancy. 1963 H. BRODKEY in New Yorker 23 Nov. 122/2 The concern he pretends has a vast adamancy, a coldness of spirit, ...
J. A. Simpson, Michael Proffitt, E. S. C. Weiner, 1997
4
Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews
Examines the two-thousand-year relationship between Christianity and Judaism, examining the long entrenched tradition of anti-Semitism that culminated in the Church's failure to protest the Holocaust during World War II.
James Carroll, 2002
5
Everything You Know About God Is Wrong: The Disinformation ...
Adamancy in belief is good; adamancy in unbelief is evil. This is a strange hypocrisy of belief. With it, you can claim you have knowledge when you don't, and call it reality. But you can then say someone who lacks your belief is making a claim ...
Russ Kick, 2007
6
Plato's Cratylus: The Comedy of Language
In his adamancy, Cratylus shows himself to be unable to abandon the tragic view of language, and thus unable to move upward into an acknowledgment of the dual nature of λόγος. Cratylus just won't budge. But this does not stop Socrates ...
Shane Montgomery Ewegen, 2013
7
Akbar Birbal'S Jokes
Panditji scolded her a thousand times but she did not open the door. Even after all this, the Pandit stuck to his adamancy. The wife thought that a quick solution has to be made. She sent a man to her maternal house to call her brothers for help.
Anindya Roy
8
Britain and Morocco During the Embassy of John Drummond Hay, ...
Drummond Hay's pressure and al-Khatib's adamancy After acquainting himself with the duties that Drummond Hay proposed, al-Khatib told Drummond Hay in a subsequent meeting that he found them very low. He again refused to accept ...
Khalid Ben Srhir, 2005
9
The Men Who Knew Too Much: Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock
Just as, with increasing adamancy, Sloper contends that Catherine will adhere to him—to his society, his desires, his judgment—while with equal adamancy Catherine adheres to a set of ethical principles, so when Morris early on asks that  ...
Susan M. Griffin, Alan Nadel, 2012
10
The Private Lives and Professional Identity of Medical Students
Because students attempt to plan their future in the face of a number of uncertainties, as well as the threat of indefinite inundation with medicine, they hedge against those uncertainties with an increasing sense of adamancy: much in the future ...
Robert S. Broadhead, 1983

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ADAMANCY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term adamancy is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Uber Execs Arrested In France Over Illicit Taxi Operations
Despite this though, Uber continued to operate in the country, showing the same adamancy it has shown in other countries it operates in. «The Tech Portal, Jun 15»
2
Firsts and the valley of varying outcomes
I am afraid that APM, despite his seeming humbleness though we can all clearly see big traits of his late brother's adamancy freely ooze ... «Nyasa Times, Jun 15»
3
Dad wasn't a Dev fan
There was a back-story to Dad's adamancy. When Dev became prime minister in 1932, he announced that he was stopping payments on a ... «Irish Echo, Jun 15»
4
Difficult choices need to be made
... moments like Turkey is in today. Difficult decisions and choices must be made rather than having a “won't budge on this or that” adamancy. «Hurriyet Daily News, Jun 15»
5
Accra Floods Prove Action on Environment Pressing Than Ever
... we as a people in the country have put ourselves into, having expressed adamancy in keeping our drains free from filth and avoiding littering. «Peace FM Online, Jun 15»
6
Open Letter to Brendan Rodgers from a Liverpool Fan
It is the adamancy and the stubbornness (Mistake no.2) on your part throughout that has left us on the brink. Players were continuously played ... «Sportskeeda, May 15»
7
The schizophrenic genius
During grade school, he would do arithmetic operations with larger numbers than his fellow mates, and often showed adamancy in doing things ... «GreaterKashmir.com, May 15»
8
PMK opposes move to repromulgate land ordinance
... decision to re-promulgate the Land ordinance as a "mockery of democracy", BJP's ally PMK today asked it to "stop its adamancy," and leave it ... «Deccan Herald, May 15»
9
Why Star Wars Sucks--- and Everyone Should Love It
Despite George Lucas' adamancy to his grand plan of six, or nine, or however many movies he supposedly planned to make, Star Wars does ... «moviepilot.com, May 15»
10
Blu-ray Review
... in multiple ways, including Jesse's constant imitations and caricatures of Hispanic voices and adamancy that Lewis is the "original crazy man. «slantmagazine, Apr 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Adamancy [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/adamancy>. Apr 2024 ».
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