Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Petrifaction; the process of conversion into stone.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or process of lapidifying; fossilization; petrifaction.
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- noun The act or process of
lapidifying ;fossilization ;petrifaction .
Etymologies
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Compare French lapidification.
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Examples
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'Monumental, monolithic, granitic,' wrote Leonard Woolf; 'It was the strange combination of great beauty and feminine charm with a kind of lapidification of character and her caustic humour which made her such a fascinating person.'
The Madonna of Bloomsbury Dinnage, Rosemary 1983
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