nigrification

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English

Etymology

From Latin nigrificare (to blacken), from niger (black) + -ficare (to make, in comparative). See -fy.

Noun

nigrification (uncountable)

  1. The act or process of making black.
    • 1812, David Stewart Erskine, The Anonymous and Fugitive Essays of the Earl of Buchan:
      the physical disquisition concerning the nigrification of the rete mucosa in blacks