Hard"en (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hardened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hardening (?).] [OE. hardnen, hardenen.]

1.

To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.

2.

To accustom by labor or suffering to endure with constancy; to strengthen; to stiffen; to inure; also, to confirm in wickedness or shame; to make unimpressionable.

"Harden not your heart."

Ps. xcv. 8.

I would harden myself in sorrow. Job vi. 10.

 

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Hard"en, v. i.

1.

To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying.

The deliberate judgment of those who knew him [A. Lincoln] has hardened into tradition. The Century.

2.

To become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a bad sense.

They, hardened more by what might most reclaim. Milton.

 

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