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pemmicanization en · NOUN

Etymology

From pemmicanize + -ation.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The act or process of pemmicanizing.
   • For canning merely reduces danger of spoilage; pemmicanization reduces weight and bulk as well. 1944, The Military Surgeon:
   • It certainly lends itself to dramatic pemmicanisation. 1966, Randolph Spencer Churchill, Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill - Volume 5, page 479:
   • He much prefers it pemmicanized." A few years later, another presciently observed, "What one may call the era of the Pemmicanisation of life is rapidly approaching." 2005, Martha Barnette, Ladyfingers and Nun's Tummies, page 179:

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