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Harden \Hard"en\, v. i.
1. To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more
compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying.
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The deliberate judgment of those who knew him [A.
Lincoln] has hardened into tradition. --The Century.
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2. To become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a
bad sense.
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They, hardened more by what might most reclaim.
--Milton.
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Harden \Hard"en\ (h[aum]rd"'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hardened}
(-'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Hardening} (-'n*[i^]ng).] [OE.
hardnen, hardenen.]
1. To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to
indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.
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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.
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I would harden myself in sorrow. --Job vi. 10.
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Hurden \Hur"den\, n. [From {Hurds}.]
A coarse kind of linen; -- called also {harden}. [Prov. Eng.]
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