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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Petrifaction; the process of conversion into stone.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The act or process of lapidifying; fossilization; petrifaction.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The act or process of lapidifying; fossilization; petrifaction.

Etymologies

  1. Compare French lapidification. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Monumental, monolithic, granitic,' wrote Leonard Woolf; 'It was the strange combination of great beauty and feminine charm with a kind of lapidification of character and her caustic humour which made her such a fascinating person.”

    The Madonna of Bloomsbury

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  1. fossilization
  1. petrifaction

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