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virulency


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Virulence  \Vir"u*lence\,  Virulency  \Vir"u*len*cy\,  n.  [Cf.  F. 
  virulence,  L.  virulentia  an  offensive  odor,  a  stench.] 
  1.  The  quality  or  state  of  being  virulent  or  venomous; 
  poisonousness;  malignancy. 
 
  2.  Extreme  bitterness  or  malignity  of  disposition.  ``Refuted 
  without  satirical  virulency.''  --Barrow. 
 
  The  virulence  of  one  declaimer,  or  the  profundities 
  and  sublimities  of  the  other  --I.  Taylor. 




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