inteneration

plural intenerations

1. uncountableusuallyA softening.

   inteneration of policing methods without sacrificing discipline

   2017, Praveen Kumar, Policing for the New Age

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   all things with us tend to rarefaction, and desiccation, and consumption; nothing hardly to condensation and inteneration, except by mixtures and methods that may be called spurious.

   1858, Francis Bacon, James Spedding, et al., transl., Instauratio Magna