indicating

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Contact with the world is an indurating process; I really did not know how hard I had grown, until I felt my heart soften at sight of you.

From Macaria by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)

Their feet, too, were bare, but small and well-formed, betraying little indurating familiarity with the rough paths around them.

From The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters by Bowen, Sue Petigru

If such accumulations gather and are changed into hard rock by pressure and other indurating agencies they make typical breccias.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various

Released from the indurating business of daily chores and the calculations of house-keeping, and placidly secure in a miser's infatuation, she lived an almost effortless emotional existence.

From Command by McFee, William

And this cruel idea of self-sacrifice was, no doubt, completing the indurating process.

From The Three Brides by Yonge, Charlotte Mary