Verstocktheit

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German

Etymology

verstockt +‎ -heit

Noun

Verstocktheit f (genitive Verstocktheit, plural Verstocktheiten)

  1. obduracy, contumacy, stubbornness
    • 1994 August 8, Till Briegleb, “Stark, wenn's brutal wird”, in taz:
      Die Geschichte von fünf Personen, die in einer Disko erst im Alkoholrausch ihre Hemmungen und Verstocktheiten ablegen, erschien thematisch zu zerdehnt und im erzählerischen doch etwas dürftig.
      The story of five people in a disco who only lose their inhibitions and obduracies in a drunken frenzy seems thematically stretched and somewhat narratively impoverished.

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