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noun

Induration n.

The act of hardening, or the process of growing hard.

State of being indurated, or of having become hard.

Hardness of character, manner, sensibility, etc.; obduracy; stiffness; lack of pliancy or feeling. "A certain induration of character had arisen from long habits of business."

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Etymology of 'Induration'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Induration" Quotes from Famous Books

... detesting formality, and disliking Polonius on political grounds, as imagining that he had assisted his uncle in his usurpation,—should express himself satirically,—yet this must not be taken as exactly the poet's conception of him. In Polonius a certain induration of character had arisen from long habits of business; but take his advice to Laertes, and Ophelia's reverence for his memory, and we shall see that he was meant to be represented as a statesman somewhat past his faculties,—his ...

— Literary Remains, Vol. 2 • Coleridge

... the bonfire, as high priests of the Temple, and chant the praises of second-hand Jerry and his second-hand book-shop. This will be the sacrifice which you will have offered to the god of Trade right in front of his sanctuary that he might soften the induration in the breasts of these worthy citizens, your rich neighbours. And if he does not, why, shut up shop or burn it up, and let us ...

— The Book of Khalid • Ameen Rihani

... external force, it is imparted to any material merely as an accidental addition without reference to its quality; as, for example, when we give a particular shape to a soft mass that it may retain the same after its induration. Organical form, again, is innate; it unfolds itself from within, and requires its determination contemporaneously with the perfect development of the germ. We everywhere discover such forms in nature throughout the whole range ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. IV • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke

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