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obduresco

become hard, to harden

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Where it lives

Ad Scapulam 1 · 6.7/10k
Truculentus 1 · 1.22/10k
De Consolatione ad Marciam 1 · 1.19/10k
Letters to and from Brutus 1 · 1.05/10k
Pro T. Annio Milone 1 · 0.95/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 3 · 0.26/10k
Philippicae 1 · 0.19/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k
Letters to Atticus 2 · 0.16/10k
In C. Verrem 1 · 0.1/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ob-dūresco — Lewis & Short

ob-dūresco, rui, 3,

I v. n., to grow or become hard, to harden (class. only in the trop. signif.; syn. occalesco).

I Lit., Cato, R. R. 50: semen diuturnitate obdurescit, Varr. R. R. 3, 14, 5: nervis divinis, Arn. 5, 18.—

II Trop., to become hardened, insensible, obdurate: ita miser cubando in lecto hic expectando obdurui, Plaut. Truc. 5, 24: ad ista obduruimus, Cic. Att. 13, 2, 1: usu obduruerat et percalluerat civitatis incredibilis patientia, id. Mil. 28, 76: nisi obduruisset animus ad dolorem, id. Fam. 2, 16, 1: contra fortunam, id. Tusc. 3, 28, 67; cf. id. Fin. 3, 11, 37: consuetudine, id. Phil. 2, 42: amicorum alii obduruerunt, id. Fam. 5, 15: Gorgonis vultu, at the sight of, Prop. 3, 20, 13: dociliora sunt ingenia, priusquam obduruerunt, Quint. 1, 12, 8.

In the wild

obduruisset Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.5.34
obduruerunt Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 5.15.2
obdurui Cicero, Letters to Atticus 10.9.1
obdurescerent Seneca, De Consolatione ad Marciam 6.23.1
obduruerunt Tertullian, Ad Scapulam 3
obdurui Plautus, Truculentus 5.1

6 of 16 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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