Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of intenerating or making soft or tender.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The act or process of intenerating, or the state of being intenerated; softening.
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- noun A
softening .
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Examples
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However, I am not in search of stocks, but the wild fruit itself, whose fierce gust has suffered no "inteneration," It is not my
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Various
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Thus all things with us tend to rarefaction, and desiccation, and consumption; nothing hardly to condensation and inteneration except by mixtures and methods that may be called spurious.
The New Organon 2005
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However, I am not in search of stocks, but the wild fruit itself, whose fierce gust has suffered no "inteneration."
Excursions Henry David Thoreau 1839
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