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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Induration \In`du*ra"tion\, n. [Cf. F. induration, L. induratio hardness of heart.] 1. The act of hardening, or the process of growing hard. 2. State of being indurated, or of having become hard. 3. Hardness of character, manner, sensibility, etc.; obduracy; stiffness; want of pliancy or feeling. A certain induration of character had arisen from long habits of business. --Coleridge. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: induration n : any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue [syn: {sclerosis}]
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