diamantine

[Joel S. Berson]

At 4/10/2012 05:41 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

>On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Jonathan Lighter
><wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > most profound and diamantine verse
>
>Hard to make sense of?

Wouldn't a speaker who knew how to use "diamantine" figuratively also
know to use "adamantine"?  (One of whose meanings is "impenetrable".)

With respect to Jon's
>In any case, no figurative exx. in OED.

the OED does admit "adamantine" has been used figuratively.  As
recently as 1996.  Perhaps it should give "diamantine" equal time.

Joel

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