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petrification
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pet·ri·fac·tion  (ptr-fkshn) also pet·ri·fi·ca·tion (-f-kshn)
n.
1. A process of fossilization in which dissolved minerals replace organic matter.
2. The state of being stunned or paralyzed with fear.
petrification, petrifaction
Iapidification.
See also: Processes
lapidification.
See also: Stones
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Noun1.petrification - the process of turning some plant material into stone by infiltration with water carrying mineral particles without changing the original shape
petrifaction
fossilisation, fossilization - the process of fossilizing a plant or animal that existed in some earlier age; the process of being turned to stone
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To be sure, he apprehends the petrifications and paradoxes of institutional religion in a modern setting, but at the very same time he underlines the paramountcy of the religious idea as an affirmation of transcendent meaning and as a protest against the braying empirio-critical, anti-spiritual voices that "dictate life and faith" in "the Land of Nothing.
In the agrarian conservative tradition by Panichas, George A. / Modern Age
 
 
 
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