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The quality or state of being virulent or venomous; poisonousness; malignancy.

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  1. n. The quality or state of being virulent or venomous; poisonousness; malignancy.
  2. n. Extreme bitterness or malignity of disposition.
  3. n. extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to cause disease)
  4. n. extreme hostility
  5. 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.
  6. n. The quality or state of being virulent or venomous; poisonousness; malignancy. n. Extreme bitterness or malignity of disposition.