- a variation of virulence.
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
Hence comes the epidemical infection: for how can they escape the contagion of the writings whom the virulency of the calumnies hath not staved off from reading?”
From Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society by Henry Morley
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
Satirical virulency may vex men sorely, but it hardly ever soundly converts them.
From Sermons on Evil-Speaking by Isaac Barrow
Experience teaches that the natural course and termination in these cases are modified by the location and depth of the injury, virulency of the contagium and resistance of the subject to such infection.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix
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