Hypertext Webster Gateway: "hardened"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Hardened \Hard"ened\, a.
Made hard, or compact; made unfeeling or callous; made
obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or vice.

Syn: Impenetrable; hard; obdurate; callous; unfeeling;
unsusceptible; insensible. See {Obdurate}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Harden \Hard"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hardened}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Hardening}.] [OE. hardnen, hardenen.]
1. To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to
indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.

2. To accustom by labor or suffering to endure with
constancy; to strengthen; to stiffen; to inure; also, to
confirm in wickedness or shame; to make unimpressionable.
``Harden not your heart.'' --Ps. xcv. 8.

I would harden myself in sorrow. --Job vi. 10.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

hardened
adj 1: used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a
case-hardened judge" [syn: {case-hardened}, {hard-boiled}]
2: made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat
treatment; "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"
[syn: {tempered}, {treated}, {toughened}] [ant: {untempered}]
3: made tough by habitual exposure; "hardened fishermen"; "a
peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured"- Robert Lynd; "our
successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men"-
V.S.Pritchett [syn: {enured}, {inured}]
4: converted to solid form (as concrete) [syn: {set}]


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