Word Meanings - PETRIFICATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. See Petrifaction. 2. Fig.: Obduracy; callousness. Hallywell.

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• OBDURACY
  The duality or state of being obdurate; invincible hardness of heart; obstinacy. "Obduracy and persistency." Shak. The absolute completion of sin in final obduracy. South.
• PETRIFACTION
  1. The process of petrifying, or changing into stone; conversion of any organic matter into stone, or a substance of stony hardness. 2. The state or condition of being petrified. 3. That which is petrified; popularly, a body incrusted with stony