enormification
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From enormify + -ification.
Noun
[edit]enormification (uncountable)
- the process or result of enormifying.
- 1881, Richard Grant White, England Without & Within, page 205:
- I mused wonderingly upon the process by which she did this ; but still more upon that sad gradual enormification by which she passed from a tall blooming beauty into her present tremendous proportions.
- 2011, R.S. Everburg, Audrika's Magic, page 63:
- I be most reproachin' sorry, but we never be havin' the company of a person of your enormification before.
- 2013, Ethel Crowley, Your Place or Mine?:
- She tried to turn the sod on a new movement, to combat the enormification of the US population and to cut the cost of this trend to the health sector.