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Webster 1913 Edition


Graveolence

Gra-ve′o-lence

,
Noun.
[L.
graveolentia
: cf. F.
gravéolence.
See
Graveolent.
]
A strong and offensive smell; rancidity.
[R.]
Bailey.

Definition 2024


graveolence

graveolence

English

Noun

graveolence (uncountable)

  1. (rare) A strong offensive smell; rancidity.
    • 1841, William Hodgson, The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte:
      [] to destroy in the flower of its beauty, then ruthlessly casts it from him as a rank and loathsome weed, without reflecting that he first robbed it of its redolence; was himself the cause of that graveolence which he then finds so offensive.