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English
Etymology
Compare French lapidification.
Noun
lapidification (countable and uncountable, plural lapidifications)
- The act or process of lapidifying; fossilization; petrifaction
1969, Georges Perec, translated by Gilbert Adair, A Void:For anybody, though, not part of it all (which was obviously Ishmail's plight), that world was nothing but a smooth, cyclical continuum, without a fold in it, without any form of articulation, as compact as stucco or staff, as putty or portland; an imbrication of nights without adjoining days, a total lapidification, a flat, hard, constant, monotonous uniformity in which all things, big or small, smooth or lumpish, living or not, form a solitary, global unit.
French
Pronunciation
Noun
lapidification f (plural lapidifications)
- lapidification
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