Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of making black.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The act or process of making black.
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- noun The act or process of making
black .
Etymologies
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Latin nigrificare to blacken; niger black + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See -fy.
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biocon commented on the word nigrification
Nigrification also means the action of becoming, or causing to become, black; the process of becoming populated by black people (Oxford English Dictionary).
July 1, 2011