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ADAMANT (from Gr. aba,uas, untameable)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 174 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ADAMANT (from Gr. See also:aba,uas, untameable) , the See also:modern See also:diamond (q.v.), but also a name given to any very hard substance. The See also:Greek word is used by See also:Homer as a See also:personal epithet, and by See also:Hesiod for the hard See also:metal in See also:armour, while See also:Theophrastus applies it to the hardest crystal. By an etymological confusion with the See also:Lat. adamare, to have an attraction for, it also came to be associated with the loadstone; but since the See also:term was displaced by " diamond " it has had only a figurative and poetical use.

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