Synonyms for petrification
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : pe-truh-fak-shuh n |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌpɛ trəˈfæk ʃən |
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Définition of petrification
Origin :- 1610s, from French petrification (16c.), Latinized noun of action from Middle French pétrifier (see petrify). Etymologically better than the more common petrifaction.
- As in solidification : noun hardening
- The mistake lies in wishing to escape from it by a petrification of our joys.
- Extract from : « Days Off » by Henry Van Dyke
- An Addition to the Instances of Petrification, formerly enumerated.
- Extract from : « Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 » by Various
- The reign of justice could only be the reign of silence and of petrification.
- Extract from : « Decadence and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas » by Remy de Gourmont
- I stared in petrification at Lukynitch; I had not expected this, I admit.
- Extract from : « The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories » by Ivn Turgnieff
- While wandering through the valley of the Clearwater and the adjacent hills, I was much struck with the wonders of petrification.
- Extract from : « Memoirs of Orange Jacobs » by Orange Jacobs
- One day the Major met a company of miners, and related to them the wonderful specimens of petrification seen by him that day.
- Extract from : « Memoirs of Orange Jacobs » by Orange Jacobs
- When she departed, as she did in a state bordering on petrification, he came forward to the bedside.
- Extract from : « Theo » by Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett
- He would be freed, for ever, from the petrification of the grey, cramping little city.
- Extract from : « The Rough Road » by William John Locke
- This is a startling fact for natural philosophers, and must cause them to modify the existing theory of petrification.
- Extract from : « The Works of Edgar Allan Poe » by Edgar Allan Poe
- On the lifeboat for those first seconds a silence of petrification reigned.
- Extract from : « The Messenger » by Elizabeth Robins
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