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Indurate   Listen
verb
Indurate  v. t.  (past & past part. indurated; pres. part. indurating)  
1.
To make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some fossils are indurated by exposure to the air.
2.
To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render obdurate.





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"Indurate" Quotes from Famous Books



... we cannot deny to her in her bright intelligence and brave defence of her faith. When his friends asked him, after this first interview, what he thought of the Queen, he gave her credit for "a proud mind, a crafty wit, and an indurate heart." But curiously enough, though the effect is not unprecedented, the faithfulness of genius baulks the prejudices of the writer, and there is nowhere a brighter or more genial representation of Mary than that which is to be found in a history full of abuse of her and vehement ...
— Royal Edinburgh - Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets • Margaret Oliphant
... called his magicians and jugglers and bade them do the same. And they made their witchcraft and invocations and cast down their rods, which turned in likewise into serpents, but the rod of Aaron devoured their rods. Yet was the heart of Pharaoh hard and so indurate that he would not do as God bade. Then said our Lord to Moses: The heart of Pharaoh is grieved and will not deliver my people. Go to him to-morn in the morning and he shall come out, and thou shalt ...
— Bible Stories and Religious Classics • Philip P. Wells
... sown in the heart of this poor girl the seeds of virtue never destined to ripen. The lessons of adversity are not always salutary—sometimes they soften and amend, but as often they indurate and pervert. If we consider ourselves more harshly treated by fate than those around us, and do not acknowledge in our own deeds the justice of the severity, we become too apt to deem the world our enemy, to case ourselves in defiance, ...
— The Last Days of Pompeii • Edward George Bulwer-Lytton


Words linked to "Indurate" :   normalize, harden, induration, cauterize, insensitive, steel oneself against, encrust, accustom, face-harden, callous, inure, change, pachydermatous, callus, cauterise, anneal, cure, incrust, brace oneself for, temper, steel onself for, soften


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