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verb

Harden v. t. (past & past part. hardened; pres. part. hardening)

1.

To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.

2.

To accustom by labor or suffering to endure with constancy; to strengthen; to stiffen; to inure; also, to confirm in wickedness or shame; to make unimpressionable. "Harden not your heart." "I would harden myself in sorrow."

Harden v. i.

1.

To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying. "The deliberate judgment of those who knew him (A. Lincoln) has hardened into tradition."

2.

To become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a bad sense. "They, hardened more by what might most reclaim."

adjective

Hardened adj.

1.

Made hard, or harder, or compact; made unfeeling or callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or vice.

2.

Rendered resistant to the effects of nearby explosions; as, a hardened missile silo; hardened warhead electronics.

3.

Experienced and inured to hardship; as, hardened combat troops.

4.

Strongly habituated to a certain type of behavior, and unlikely to change; as, a hardened criminal. Usually used only of behavior perceived negatively.

Synonyms: Impenetrable; hard; obdurate; callous; unfeeling; unsusceptible; insensible. See Obdurate.

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Etymology of 'Hardened'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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