- a variation of virulence.
virulency
Example Sentences
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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
Satirical virulency may vex men sorely, but it hardly ever soundly converts them.
From Sermons on Evil-Speaking by Isaac Barrow
These cultures, left alone without any possible external contamination, undergo, in the course of time, modifications of their virulency to a greater or less extent.
From A History of Science — Volume 4 by Henry Smith Williams
Thirdly, from the virulency of the liquor it ejects, and the sad effects and symptoms that follow it.
From Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon by Robert Hooke
And the prophets, in spite of their virulency, produced the highest forms of artistic beauty.
From The Literature of Ecstasy by Albert Mordell
