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Alt. of Virulency

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  1. n. Alt. of Virulency
  2. n. extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to cause disease)
  3. n. extreme hostility
  4. 1. The quality or state of being virulent or venomous; poisonousness; malignancy. 2. Extreme bitterness or malignity of disposition. "Refuted without satirical virulency." Barrow. The virulence of one declaimer, or the profundities and sublimities of the other. I. Taylor.
  5. n:100 n. extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to cause disease) n. extreme hostility