fortition

noun fortitions

1. countable, uncountable A sound change in which a consonant becomes more fortis. 1988, Sylvia Moosmüller, Sociophonology, Peter Auer, Aldo di Luzio (editors), Variation and Convergence: Studies in Social Dialectology, page 76, The two process types following from these assumptions, lenition processes, aiming at articulatory ease at the expense of perception, and fortition proces

   Opposite: lenition

2. countable, obsolete, uncountable Casual choice; fortuitous selection; hazard. No rotation; no appointment by lot; no mode of election operating in the spirit of fortition or rotation, can be generally good in a government conversant in extensive objects.