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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
induration
    n 1: any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue [syn:
         sclerosis, induration]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Induration \In`du*ra"tion\, n. [Cf. F. induration, L. induratio
   hardness of heart.]
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   1. The act of hardening, or the process of growing hard.
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   2. State of being indurated, or of having become hard.
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   3. Hardness of character, manner, sensibility, etc.;
      obduracy; stiffness; lack of pliancy or feeling.
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            A certain induration of character had arisen from
            long habits of business.              --Coleridge.
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Thesaurus Results for Induration:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Philistinism, armor, callosity, callousness, callus, flintiness, formidable defenses, hard heart, hard shell, hardenedness, hardheartedness, hardness, hardness of heart, heart of stone, imperviousness, insensitiveness, insensitivity, inuredness, obduracy, obdurateness, rhinoceros hide, stoniness, thick skin
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