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Webster 1828 Edition


Virulence

VIR'ULENCE

,'ULENCY,
Noun.
[from virulent.]
1.
That renders it extremely active in doing injury; acrimony; malignancy; as the virulence of poison.
2.
Acrimony of temper; extreme bitterness or malignity; as the virulence of enmity or malice; the virulence of satire; to attack a man with virulence.

Definition 2024


virulence

virulence

English

Noun

virulence (countable and uncountable, plural virulences)

  1. the state of being virulent
  2. a measure of how virulent a thing is