The giving a greater degree of hardness to bodies than they had before.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
Making hard or more compact; making obdurate or unfeeling; confirming; becoming more hard.
1. Making hard or harder.
2. That which hardens, as a material used for converting the surface of iron into steel.
Impiety Roget’s Thesaurus §988
N. impiety, sin, irreverence, profaneness, profanity, profanation, blasphemy, desecration, sacrilege, scoffing, hypocrisy, pietism, cant, pious fraud, lip devotion, lip service, lip reverence, misdevotion, formalism, austerity, sanctimony, sanctimoniousness, pharisaism, precisianism, sabbatism, sabbatarianism, odium theologicum, sacerdotalism, bigotry, (prejudice) 481, blue laws, hardening, backsliding, declension, perversion, reprobation, sinner, scoffer, blasphemer, sacrilegist, sabbath breaker, worldling, hypocrite, tartufe, mawworm, bigot, saint, pharisee, sabbatarian, formalist, methodist, puritan, pietist, precisian, religionist, devotee, ranter, fanatic, juramentado, the wicked, the evil, the unjust, the reprobate, sons of men, sons of belial, the wicked one, children of darkness
V. be impious, profane, desecrate, blaspheme, revile, scoff, swear, commit sacrilege, snuffle, turn up the whites of the eyes, idolize
Adj. impious, irreligious, desecrating, profane, irreverent, sacrilegious, blasphemous, un-hallowed, un-sanctified, un-regenerate, hardened, perverted, reprobate, hypocritical, canting, pietistical, sanctimonious, unctuous, pharisaical, overrighteous, righteous over much, bigoted, fanatical, priest-ridden
Adv. under the mask of religion, under the cloak of religion, under the pretense of religion, under the form of religion, under the guise of religion
Phr. giovane santo diavolo vecchio
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1 KJV and 1 BSB verses contain “Hardening”
And after that king Nabuchodonosor had made him to swear by the name of the Lord, he forswore himself, and rebelled; and hardening his neck, his heart, he transgressed the laws of the Lord God of Israel.