virulency
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Immediately he sent for a dozen ferrets on which to test the virulency of the germs which were causing the Hagerstown trouble.
From Time Magazine Archive
The veterinarian is in no position to estimate the virulency of organisms so introduced; neither can he determine the exact degree of resistance possessed by the subject in any given case.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix
The controversy between the two is noted for the virulency of the personal invective. with hideous ruin.
From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Jacob Zeitlin
We seem to be approaching to that state which first made such restrictions necessary, and in the further course of time, the disease will probably fall off again, both in virulency and frequency.
From An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases by William Withering
And the prophets, in spite of their virulency, produced the highest forms of artistic beauty.
From The Literature of Ecstasy by Albert Mordell
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