- 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
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
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
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
