pemmicanization

English

Alternative forms

• pemmicanisation

Etymology

pemmicanize +‎ -ation

Noun

pemmicanization (uncountable)

1. The act or process of pemmicanizing.
   • 1944, The Military Surgeon:

     For canning merely reduces danger of spoilage; pemmicanization reduces weight and bulk as well.

   • 1966, Randolph Spencer Churchill, Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill - Volume 5, page 479:

     It certainly lends itself to dramatic pemmicanisation.

   • 2005, Martha Barnette, Ladyfingers and Nun's Tummies, page 179:

     He much prefers it pemmicanized." A few years later, another presciently observed, "What one may call the era of the Pemmicanisation of life is rapidly approaching."