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It is shown that gradual devitrifiation of non-magnetostrictive Co-based metallic glass leads to a giant, five orders of magnitude, increase of its coercivity. This magnetic hardening is due to the pinning of domain walls by growing fine crystallites much smaller than the domain wall width, the number and size of which increase with an increase of the annealing temperature.