virulence

He said, 'You can have no conception of what the virulence is against Peel and me.'

Tubercle bacilli vary widely in their virulence, and they are more tenacious of life than the common pyogenic bacteria.

The first are frequently actuated by personal friendship, the last by all the virulence of party spirit.

I drew my sword, and threatened him but he was insensible to his danger; he reviled me, he spat at me with a child's virulence.

Its virulence and difficulty of cure induced the Romans to send to Egypt for attendance.

This will prevent evaporation, and cultures thus sealed will remain unaltered in virulence for a considerable time.

As may be conceived, these criticisms and strictures lacked nothing in virulence or acrimony.

Further, the virulence of an organism is modified by the condition of the patient into whose tissues it is introduced.

The animal race shall cease from their animosity and virulence of temper.

To distil, therefore, is only to lead it off from its union with the vegetable mass, and show it naked with all its virulence.