humectation

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Clays by fire are deprived of their coherent quality, which cannot be restored to them by pulverization, nor by humectation.

From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Darwin, Erasmus

Drink, my children; health consists in the suppleness and humectation of the parts: drink water in great abundance: it is an universal menstruum that dissolves all kinds of salt.

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver