Definition of Induretion
In`du*ra"tion (?), n. [Cf. F.
induration, L. induratio hardness of heart.]
1. The act of hardening, or the process of
growing hard.
2. State of being indurated, or of having
become hard.
3. Hardness of character, manner,
sensibility, etc.; obduracy; stiffness; want of pliancy or
feeling.
A certain induration of character had arisen
from long habits of business. Coleridge.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- hardness, or the process of becoming hard
*1980: The voice was harder than I had known, and not only in stony reaction to long floods of wholly just selfpity, also roughened with gin and smoke, perhaps also assimilated to New York induration, the hardness of culture as well as of pain. — Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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