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fulminant

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ful·mi·nant  (flm-nnt, fl-)
adj.
1. Exploding or detonating.
2. Pathology Occurring suddenly, rapidly, and with great severity or intensity.
[Latin fulminns, fulminant-, present participle of fulminre, to strike with lightning; see fulminate.]
fulminant [ˈfʌlmɪnənt ˈfʊl-]
adj
1. sudden and violent; fulminating
2. (Medicine / Pathology) Pathol (of pain) sudden and sharp; piercing
[from Latin fulmināre to cause lightning, from fulmen lightning that strikes]
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Adj.1.fulminant - sudden and severe; "fulminant pain"; "fulminant fever"
sudden - happening without warning or in a short space of time; "a sudden storm"; "a sudden decision"; "a sudden cure"


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Month after month for the six years in which the "Editor's Study" continued in the keeping of its first occupant, its lesson was more or less stormily delivered, to the exclusion, for the greater part, of other prophecy, but it has not been found well to keep the tempestuous manner along with the fulminant matter in this volume.
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