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Hardened   /hˈɑrdənd/   Listen
Hardened

adjective
1.
Used of persons; emotionally hardened.  Synonyms: case-hardened, hard-boiled.
2.
Made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment.  Synonyms: tempered, toughened, treated.  "Tempered glass"
3.
Protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons).
4.
Made tough by habitual exposure.  Synonyms: enured, inured.  "A peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured" , "Our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men"
5.
Converted to solid form (as concrete).  Synonym: set.


Harden

verb
(past & past part. hardened; pres. part. hardening)
1.
Become hard or harder.  Synonym: indurate.
2.
Make hard or harder.  Synonym: indurate.
3.
Harden by reheating and cooling in oil.  Synonym: temper.
4.
Make fit.  Synonym: season.
5.
Cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate.  Synonyms: indurate, inure.



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"Hardened" Quotes from Famous Books



... best to put before him the main difficulties felt by unbelievers. When he is once acquainted with these he will run in no danger of confirming doubt through his fear in turning away from it in the first instance. How many die hardened unbelievers through the treatment which they have received from those to whom their Christianity has been a matter of circumstances and habit only? Hell is no fiction. Who, without bitter sorrow, can reflect upon the agonies even of a single soul as being due to the selfishness ...
— The Fair Haven • Samuel Butler
... with Joyce during these years? If Calhoun had known all that she suffered, all her heartaches, he would not have been so happy at Harvard as he was. The fear of losing his daughter being gone, Mr. Crawford, like Pharaoh, hardened his heart. He believed that in time Joyce would forget, a pitiable mistake made by many fathers. A woman like Joyce, who truly loves, never forgets. It is said that men do, but ...
— Raiding with Morgan • Byron A. Dunn
... liking for you, and want a lad of spirit and education to be my companion," he replied. "The old hands I cannot trust—they are as likely to turn against me as to serve me—while you, I know, will be faithful for awhile, till you get hardened ...
— Peter the Whaler • W.H.G. Kingston
... her mouth hardened, a certain defiance came into her manner. But she went straight ahead seeking evidence ...
— Counsel for the Defense • Leroy Scott
... Afer, a hardened criminal and informer, was indignant at the discourse, and through indignation spilled Falernian over his whole tunic. He had always believed in the gods. People say that Rome will perish, and there are some even who contend that it is perishing already. And surely! But if that should ...
— Quo Vadis - A Narrative of the Time of Nero • Henryk Sienkiewicz


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