carnification

English

Etymology

Compare French carnification.

Noun

carnification (countable and uncountable, plural carnifications)

1. The act or process of turning to flesh, or to a substance resembling flesh.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “carnification”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

carnification f (plural carnifications)

1. carnification

Further reading

• “carnification”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.