obduredness

Updated: June 29, 2025

Hereupon, I confess, finding the obduredness, and hopeless condition of that man, I bent my prayers against him, beseeching God daily, that he would be pleased to remove by some means or other, that apparent hindrance of my faithful labours; who gave me an answer accordingly.

Theophilus Cibber - The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753): Volume I.