[f. ETIOLATE v.: see -ATION.] The action of etiolating; the process of becoming, or the condition of being, etiolated.
1799. Sir H. Davy, in Beddoes, Contrib. to Phys. & Med. Knowledge, 188. Plants, in the process of etiolation, lose the light combined with their leaves, and become white.
1816. Keith, Phys. Bot., II. 498. Etiolation may also ensue from the depredation of insects.
1844. N. Brit. Rev., II. 81. Newton smoked himself into a state of absolute etiolation.
1845. Carlyle, Cromwell (1873), I. i. 9. This is the collapse, the etiolation of human features into mouldy blank.
1882. Vines, Sachs’ Bot., 754. It is remarkable that etiolation does not extend to the flowers.
