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harden (n.)
c.1200 (replacing Old English
heardian
) "to make (something) hard," from
hard
+
-en
(1). Meaning "to become hard" is late 14c. Related:
Hardened
(figurative sense of "unfeeling" is from late 14c.);
hardening
.
