noun. The state or quality of being obdurate; especially, the state of being hardened against moral influences; extreme hardness of heart; rebellious persistence in wickedness.

noun. Synonyms See obdurate.

noun. The duality or state of being obdurate; invincible hardness of heart; obstinacy.

noun. The state of being obdurate, intractable, or stubbornly inflexible.

noun. resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible

"But there are also the white clergy (and rabbi); usually, they were pusillanimous and hesitant to move more than a step or two beyond their conservative members, most of whom supported the egregious Jew-turned-Episcopalian Mayor Henry Loeb, who rivals in obduracy George W. Bush."

firmness  firmness of purpose  resoluteness  resolution  resolve  

boastfulness  bringing-up  contumacy  disobedience  doggedness  

obstinacy