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deliquescence

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deliquescence /del·i·ques·cence/ (del″ĭ-kwes´ens) dampness or liquefaction from the absorption of water from air.deliques´cent
del·i·ques·cence (dl-kwsns)
n.
The process of dissolving or of becoming liquid through the absorption of moisture from the atmosphere.
deliquescence [del″ĭ-kwes´ens]
the condition of becoming moist or liquefied as a result of absorption of water from the air.
deliquescence
the condition of becoming moist or liquified as a result of absorption of water from the air.
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The title's "passing" as a metaphor for the fluctuation and eventual deliquescence of Grandison's feelings towards Colonel Owens euphemizes the cheerful self-slaughter of the prodigal slave (indeed, the colonel "kill[s] the fatted calf" for him) and replaces him with a resolute freedman.
"As if I had entered a paradise": fugitive slave narratives and ... by Kang, Nancy / African American Review
Khalfin's ensemble of works, collectively titled Towards Comprehension of Limits (and appearing here amid videos made with fellow Kazakh artist Yulia Tikhonova), eloquently testifies to the inexorable deliquescence of those ideals.
Debt collectors by Pontegnie, Anne / Artforum International
Hamlet's deeply ambivalent response to the ghost resides, I would suggest, in his inability to reconcile its implicit contradictions: the seeming vitality of its determinate form (the ghost as idol), with the materiality of its unbecoming--the mindlessly generative rot within, the undiscriminating deliquescence.
Psychoanalysis and the corpse by Zimmerman, Susan / Shakespeare Studies
 
 
 
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