nigrification

English

Etymology

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

Noun

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

Related terms

• nigrify