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n. - Becoming inflexible or out of date; The process of preserving a plant or animal that existed in some earlier age.

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  • The former hypothesis has some justification, for Chinese prose was sufficiently young to have escaped, as yet, on the whole, the later processes of "fossilisation", by...
  • Witness her attacks on the saintly Vincent Gray – “brain fossilisation” etc.
  • Studies of fossilisation now known as stabilisation suggested that learners who are not encouraged to, or even discouraged from, ‘adding grammar’ are stuck in the...
  • Studies of fossilisation (now known as stabilisation) suggested that learners who are not encouraged to, or even discouraged from, ‘adding grammar’ are stuck in the...
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