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Webster 1913 Edition
Virulency
{
Vir′u-lence
,Vir′u-len-cy
, }Noun.
[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.