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virulency

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vir·u·lent  (vîry-lnt, vîr-)
adj.
1.
a. Extremely infectious, malignant, or poisonous. Used of a disease or toxin.
b. Capable of causing disease by breaking down protective mechanisms of the host. Used of a pathogen.
2. Bitterly hostile or antagonistic; hateful: virulent criticism. See Synonyms at poisonous.
3. Intensely irritating, obnoxious, or harsh.

[Middle English, from Latin vrulentus, from vrus, poison.]

viru·lence, viru·len·cy n.
viru·lent·ly adv.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.virulency - extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to cause disease); "the virulence of the plague"
micro-organism, microorganism - any organism of microscopic size
harmfulness, injuriousness - destructiveness that causes harm or injury
2.virulency - extreme hostility; "the virulence of the malicious old man"
hostility, ill will - a hostile (very unfriendly) disposition; "he could not conceal his hostility"


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Fortunately, the beasts seemed more bent on stretching their paws, and yawning, and flourishing their tails, than devouring me alive; but they would suffer no resurrection, and I was forced to lie till their malignant masters pleased to deliver me: then, hatless and trembling with wrath, I ordered the miscreants to let me out - on their peril to keep me one minute longer - with several incoherent threats of retaliation that, in their indefinite depth of virulency, smacked of King Lear.
 
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