liquefaction

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From Middle English liquefaction, from Middle French liquefaction (modern French liquéfaction), from Medieval Latin liquefactiō.

In this city of Naples, they believe in and support one of the wretchedest of all the religious impostures one can find in Italy--the miraculous liquefaction of the blood of St. Januarius. — The Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain
By ten o’clock the police organisation, and by midday even the railway organisations, were losing coherency, losing shape and efficiency, guttering, softening, running at last in that swift liquefaction of the social body. — The war of the worlds, H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
In that dim blend of blue and yellow the form of my uncle had commenced a nauseous liquefaction whose essence eludes all description, and in which there played across his vanishing face such changes of identity as only madness can conceive. — The Shunned House, H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

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