inteneration

English

Noun

inteneration (usually uncountable, plural intenerations)

1. A softening.
   • 1858, Francis Bacon, James Spedding, et al., transl., Instauratio Magna:

     all things with us tend to rarefaction, and desiccation, and consumption; nothing hardly to condensation and inteneration, except by mixtures and methods that may be called spurious.

   • 2017, Praveen Kumar, Policing for the New Age:

     inteneration of policing methods without sacrificing discipline

Related terms

• intenerate

References

• “inteneration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.