diamantine
Britishadjective
Etymology
Origin of diamantine
C17: from French diamantin, from diamant diamond
Example Sentences
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Undergirding all the rhetorical exuberance is a diamantine core of accuracy.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 23, 2023
I located the diamantine intensities in so many of her poems, which are as vital and influential in their way as Sylvia Plath’s or Elizabeth Bishop’s.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2020
Every surface has a diamantine glitter, an effect accentuated by the starlight glow of thousand of smartphones in the audience.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 27, 2017
Her score for “Jackie”—intensely new, intensely different, intensely felt—will be competing against Justin Hurwitz’s score for the musical “La La Land,” a work of diamantine pastiche.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 23, 2017
There was that about Count Giraldi, a diamantine brilliancy, a something hard and crystalline, a positiveness, an incisiveness of view and reflection, which on first acquaintance decided me not to take him into my confidence.
From The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
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