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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
indurate .
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This disposition, which preserves the tranquillity of the rich, indurates the sense of wretchedness in the poor; it supplies the place of fortitude in the one, and that of patience in the other; and, while it enables both to endure their own particular distresses, it makes them submit quietly to a weight and excess of public evils, which any nation but their own would sink under, or resist.
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This disposition, which preserves the tranquillity of the rich, indurates the sense of wretchedness in the poor; it supplies the place of fortitude in the one, and that of patience in the other; and, while it enables both to endure their own particular distresses, it makes them submit quietly to a weight and excess of public evils, which any nation but their own would sink under, or resist.
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The truly sick ones bypass that altogether and move into chronic disease which indurates, alters, and weakens at far more fundamental and dangerous levels.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Judith Acosta 2011
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The entire region around Paris lies on a substratum of this stone, which indurates by exposure to the air, and the whole secret of the celebrated catacombs of
Recollections of Europe James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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This disposition, which preserves the tranquillity of the rich, indurates the sense of wretchedness in the poor; it supplies the place of fortitude in the one, and that of patience in the other; and, while it enables both to endure their own particular distresses, it makes them submit quietly to a weight and excess of public evils, which any nation but their own would sink under, or resist.
A Residence in France During the Years 1792 1793 1794 and 1795 Lady, An English 1797
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But inexplicable and almighty providence strengthens, indurates the heart for the scenes of detestation to which it is destined.
Italian Letters, Vols. I and II The History of the Count de St. Julian William Godwin 1796
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