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Petrification   Listen
noun
Petrification  n.  
1.
See Petrifaction.
2.
Fig.: Obduracy; callousness.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Petrification" Quotes from Famous Books



... nothing. You are poets and dreamers if you hope. Why, look about you: the tribune, the press, intelligence, speech, thought, all that was liberty, has vanished. Yesterday, these things were in motion, alive; to-day, they are petrified. Well, people are satisfied with this petrification, they accommodate themselves to it, make the most of it, conduct business on it, and live as usual. Society goes on, and plenty of worthy folk are well pleased with this state of things. Why do you want to change it, to put an end to it? Don't deceive yourselves, it is all solid, all ...
— Napoleon the Little • Victor Hugo



Words linked to "Petrification" :   fossilisation, fossilization, petrifaction, petrify



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