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indurate
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synonyms: inure ???
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Definition:to become hardened - whether minerals, tissue or emotions---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.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Both indurated by early domestic training
James Joyce. Ulysses.
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Each was initiated into that degree to which the induration of his conscience and the character of his discontent made him eligible, and in which he could be most serviceable, the body of the people still cheating themselves with the false sense of security begotten of the belief that they were somehow exempt from the operation of all agencies inimical to their national welfare and integrity.
Ambrose Bierce. Ashes of the Beacon
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