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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

... capsule of this genus is apparently in connection with the peculiar induration of the calyx of the fruit; its relations to the capsule is so obvious that its dehiscence is the only one compatible with the free dissemination of the seeds, the calyx remaining entire. Hence? ...

— Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and The - Neighbouring Countries • William Griffith

... 1780, the noble Kaiserinn Maria Theresa, after a short illness, died. Her end was beautiful and exemplary, as her course had been. The disease, which seemed at first only a bad cold, proved to have been induration of the lungs; the chief symptom throughout, a more and more suffocating difficulty to breathe. On the edge of death, the Kaiserinn, sitting in a chair (bed impossible in such struggle for breath), leant her head back as if inclined to sleep. One of her women arranged the cushions, ...

— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XXI. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle

... fleets of Europe? Yet plantation fanaticism did not prevent the great act from which we augured English hatred of a slaveholders' rebellion. Probably the lining membrane of a pocket may have intermitted accesses of induration: we must consult circumstances, if we would know what to expect. An extraordinary vintage or a great fruit year will follow a long series of scant or average crops; but we can ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 9, No. 56, June, 1862 • Various

... connective and epithelial tissue are destroyed; while the newly formed tissue leads to hypertrophy (excessive over-growth) of other portions of the organ. Such a hypertrophy must not be confounded with an induration that may be present later, or even at the very commencement of an inflammation, due to modification of ...

— Intestinal Ills • Alcinous Burton Jamison

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