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reˈharden, v.
[re- 5 a.]
1. trans. To make hard again.
1605Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iii. iii. Lawe 473 The King's [Pharaoh's] repentance endeth with his pain. Hee is re⁓hardned. 1677Moxon Mech. Exerc. No. i. 11 You must..harden the point of it.., because the heat of the Iron will soften it fast enough,..but then you must re-harden it. 1678Hobbes Decam. Wks. 1845 VII. 131, I conceive now how a body which having [sic] been hard and softened again, may be rehardened. 1843Holtzapffel Turning I. 246 The knife edges..being found too soft..were re-hardened.
2. intr. To grow hard again.
1829J. L. Knapp Jrnl. Nat. 7 That lime rehardens after being made soft, as in mortar, is owing to [etc.].
Hence reˈhardening vbl. n.
1675Woodhead, etc. Paraph. St. Paul 35 That re-hardening still of Pharaoh's heart. |