petrifaction

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For another video, Weitz dipped her own hand in porcelain slip and let it dry, creating a crackling petrifaction effect on her skin; her dusty, chalky-looking body then appeared a decaying sculpture itself.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2016

The petrifaction of religious language has happened over and over – Catholic Latin, Orthodox Slavonic.

From The Guardian • Mar. 1, 2011

Most were philosophers, and inquired into the workings of time and memory, natural history, the properties of light, heat, and petrifaction.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

The sand-stone alluded to above, is in the intermediate state between clay and stone, in which the process of petrifaction is still in progress.

From The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 by Ingraham, Jonathon Holt

Where forms, such as the Demon-World adores, Laborious water carves; whence echo ships Wild-tongued o'er pools where petrifaction strips Her breasts of crystal from which crystal pours.—

From Weeds by the Wall Verses by Cawein, Madison Julius