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noun

Induration n.

The act of hardening, or the process of growing hard.

State of being indurated, or of having become hard.

Hardness of character, manner, sensibility, etc.; obduracy; stiffness; lack of pliancy or feeling. "A certain induration of character had arisen from long habits of business."

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Etymology of 'Induration'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... I put my hand on his shoulders in a familiar way, to make myself at home with him, and to remove the timidity with which my sudden appearance seemed to inspire him, by a pleasant word or two of greeting, his flesh felt case-hardened into all the induration of toiling manhood, and as unsusceptible of growth as the anvil block. Fixed manhood had set in upon him in the greenness of his youth; and there he was, by his father's side, a stinted, premature man with his childhood cut off; with no space to grow in between the cradle and ...

— Jemmy Stubbins, or The Nailer Boy - Illustrations Of The Law Of Kindness • Unknown Author

... from Bailey's Dictionary (1728):-" Pin and Web, a horny induration of the membranes of the eye, not much unlike a Cataract." "Pearl (among oculists), a web on ...

— The Natural History of Wiltshire • John Aubrey

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