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n. - The process of becoming stiff

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  • He beckons to him since he can no longer raise his rigidifying body.
  • The Groups Areas Act furthered this concept by rigidifying urban segregation and excluding black traders from central business districts.
  • It added, "... the constitution must avoid rigidifying ethnic groupings as such and making them the building blocks of the form of government."
  • A certain strain of feminist theory has picked up on this line of criticism, identifying the peremptory and rigidifying discourse of rights with the confrontational...
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