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Induration

noun

Any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue. Synonym: sclerosis.

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... added either to its beauty or convenience, to retain the scaffolding. For this, he was censured at the time, by Robert Baillie. But whoever will read the sermon of that learned divine, entitled "Errors and Induration," which was preached by him in Westminster Abbey, in the month of July, 1645, will not be astonished to find, that Baillie disapproved of a mode of preaching, which was so completely at variance with his own. "He has the new guise of preaching," said Baillie, speaking of Mr. Andrew Gray, who ...

— The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning • Hugh Binning

... caricature that she gave us a frown of welcome. That is, she made us feel, in spite of a darkened countenance, that she was really willing to see us in her house, and that she took our coming as a sign of amity. I suppose that the induration of her spirit was the condition of her being able to bear at all what had been laid on her to bear, and her burden had ...

— A Pair of Patient Lovers • William Dean Howells

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