enormification

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

enormify +‎ -ification

Noun[edit]

enormification (uncountable)

  1. the process or result of enormifying.
    • 1881, Richard Grant White, England Without & Within, page 205:
      I mused wonderingly upon the process by which she did this ; but still more upon that sad gradual enormification by which she passed from a tall blooming beauty into her present tremendous proportions.
    • 2011, R.S. Everburg, Audrika's Magic, page 63:
      I be most reproachin' sorry, but we never be havin' the company of a person of your enormification before.
    • 2013, Ethel Crowley, Your Place or Mine?:
      She tried to turn the sod on a new movement, to combat the enormification of the US population and to cut the cost of this trend to the health sector.