indurate

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This reflected opinion of others wrought also to the mollifying of his mother's feelings toward him; but those with which she regarded Annie they only served to indurate, as the more revealing the girl's unworthiness of him.

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  1. transitive verb To make hard; harden: soil that had been indurated by extremes of climate.
  2. transitive verb To inure, as to hardship or ridicule.
  3. transitive verb To make callous or obdurate: "It is the curse of revolutionary calamities to indurate the heart” (Helen Maria Williams).
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  1. Latin indūrāre, indūrāt- : in-, intensive pref.; see in-2 + dūrus, hard; see deru- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin induratus, past participle of indurare, harden, from in, in, + durare, harden: see dure and endure.
  2. = Old French endure; from Latin induratus, past participle: see the verb.
 

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/ˈɪndjureɪt/
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