"humifaction" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1853, Walter Savage Landor, The Last Fruit Off an Old Tree, page 193:",
          "text": "In the Hejira from Rome the Holy Spirit was less perceptible than the Spirit of Hartshorn, administered by the French Ambassador; and the coach (I hear) displayed on the carpet less of sanctification than of humifaction.",
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          "ref": "1873, Dr. Georg Schweinfurth, translated by Ellen E. Frewer, The Heart of Africa, translation of original in German, page 533:",
          "text": "The process of rapid superficial humifaction which takes place. here, is to be attributed doubtless to the temperature being so much higher than in the temperate zones, where a corresponding degree of decomposition would be the work of years.",
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          "ref": "1914, Wendell Paddock, Fruit-growing in Arid Regions, page 197:",
          "text": "Much of this valuable material is lost by constant clean cultivation and the consequent burning of the organic materials, before it reaches the stage in which humifaction may take place.",
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        "The transformation of organic matter into humus; decomposition."
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        "(obsolete) The transformation of organic matter into humus; decomposition."
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        "The transformation of organic matter into humus; decomposition."
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        "(obsolete) The transformation of organic matter into humus; decomposition."
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