Worthless Word for the Day

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the worthless word for the day is: indurate

[fr. L. indurare] /IN duh rate/
[v] 1) to harden 2) to inure 3) to make callous
[a] hardened; obstinate
cf. obdurate

Thy heart indurate, shall poetic woe,
And plaintive ejulation, nought avail?
- Lord John Maclaurin, On Johnson's Dictionary (1798)

White as the snows of Apennine
Indurated by frost.
- William Wordsworth, The Eclipse of the Sun (1820)

"Bertram Cornell, the indurate, cold-blooded Englishman,
is struck by many arrows but remains upright and still
as a statue as his comrades make their way to safety."
- Dale L. Walker, Jack London: The Stories (ca. 2006)