pemmicanization

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Etymology

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From pemmicanize +‎ -ation.

Noun

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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."