rigidification
(rɪˌdʒɪdɪfɪˈkeɪʃən)
[f. rigidify v.: see -fication.]
The action of making or becoming rigid. Also fig.
| 1947 Sun (Baltimore) 31 Oct. 10/2 Would not the proposed rigidification of the whole approach..offer hazards of its own? 1965 Jrnl. Immunol. XCIV. 130/1 Rigidification of a portion of a normally motile cell membrane may lead to its rupture. 1973 B. R. Wilson Magic & Millennium xii. 384 An over-institutionalization, a rigidification, not only of religious practices, beliefs, and procedures, but also of the entire pattern of life of a new community. 1980 P. Greenhalgh Pompey i. 208 Cato's faction displayed that inflexibility of purpose which reacts to increasing isolation by rigidification rather than relaxation. |