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virulence - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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Noun
virulence (countable and uncountable, plural virulences)
- The state of being virulent.
- ✤ Most strains of this virus have no virulence.
- ✤ Francis was enraged at the interference, and opposition made him more in earnest; but just at this time, the civil war, which had hitherto left their part of the country comparatively quiet, arose with great virulence in their immediate vicinity.1
- The degree of how virulent a thing is.
- ✤ This strain has higher virulence than most others.
Etymology
From Middle French virulence, from Late Latin virulentia.
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈvɪɹjələns/, /ˈvɪɹələns/
- Audio (US): 🔊
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Link to original Footnotes
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 61: ↩
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