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ˈhard-headed, a.
1. lit. Having a hard head.
†2. Not easily turned, as a horse; fig. obstinate, stubborn. Obs.
1583Golding Calvin on Deut. x. 57 We bee hardheaded and thinke that all that euer is sayde is but a mockerie. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 240 It must be regarded that the Horse in leading be not drawn after you, for so will he be made hard headed, unwilling to follow. 1642Chas. I Answ. to Earles of Bristol & Dorset 7 By which we may rectifie this hard-headed distraction.
3. Not easily influenced by sophistry or sentiment; matter-of-fact, logical, practical. Cf. hard a. 10.
1779F. Burney Diary Oct., Mrs. Dickens is..a sensible, hard-headed woman. 1883Pall Mall G. 14 Dec. 1/1 Standing..at Bradford before five thousand hard-headed Yorkshiremen. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. II. lxxiv. 609 A shrewd, cool, hard-headed man of business.
Hence hardˈheadedly adv.; hardˈheadedness.
1848H. Rogers Ess. I. vi. 317 A proof of his indomitable hard-headedness. 1886Pall Mall G. 16 June 5/2 To deal with an irresponsible romancer thus hardheadedly may seem like breaking a butterfly on a wheel. |