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Another word for toughness

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The fact or condition of being rigorous and unsparing:
austerity, hardness, harshness, rigidity, rigor, rigorousness, severity, sternness, strictness, stringency. See easy
Unwavering firmness of character, action, or will:
decidedness, decision, decisiveness, determination, firmness, purpose, purposefulness, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, will, willpower. See certain, strong

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Its strength and toughness render it valuable for naval purposes, to which it is largely applied; its freedom from any tendency to split adapts it for clinker-built boats.
She'd never found someone with her mental toughness, someone who could challenge her.
Such an alloy can be cast like ordinary bronze, but excels the latter in hardness, elasticity, toughness and tensile strength.
In the form of plate it can be tempered and annealed till its elasticity and toughness are much increased, and it can then be formed into almost any shape under the hammer and punch.
With repeated hammering, drawing out and annealing, it gains much in strength and toughness, and the addition of a very minute quantity of carbon converts it into steel, less tough, but of the keenest hardness.

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