nigrification

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English

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Etymology

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

Noun

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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
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