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Petrification   Listen
noun
Petrification  n.  
1.
See Petrifaction.
2.
Fig.: Obduracy; callousness.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Petrification" Quotes from Famous Books



... I shall accept involution, petrification of the sutures and limitation with good grace. I have never rebelled against logic, nor against nature, against the lightning or the thunder storm. No sooner does one gain the crest of the hill of life than at once he begins ...
— Youth and Egolatry • Pio Baroja
... impermeability; incompressibility; imporosity[obs3]; cohesion &c. 46; constipation, consistence, spissitude|. specific gravity; hydrometer, areometer[obs3]. condensation; caseation[obs3]; solidation[obs3], solidification; consolidation; concretion, coagulation; petrification &c. (hardening) 323; crystallization, precipitation; deposit, precipitate; inspissation[obs3]; gelation, thickening &c. v. indivisibility, indiscerptibility[obs3], insolubility, indissolvableness. solid body, mass, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus


Words linked to "Petrification" :   petrify, fossilization, fossilisation


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