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graveolence

graveolence noun: a strong offensive smell; rancidity.

Noun

graveolence (uncountable)

  1. (rare) A strong offensive smell; rancidity.
    • […] to destroy in the flower of its beauty, then ruthlessly casts it from him as a rank and loathsome weed, without reflecting that he first robbed it of its redolence; was himself the cause of that graveolence which he then finds so offensive.1841, William Hodgson, The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte

Origin of graveolence

From Latin graveolentia. Compare French gravéolence. See graveolent.

Questions about graveolence

What does graveolence mean?
Graveolence means a strong offensive smell; rancidity.
What part of speech is graveolence?
Graveolence is a noun.

Words near graveolence in the dictionary

  1. Graveneys
  2. gravening
  3. gravens
  4. Gravenstein
  5. Gravensteins
  6. graveolence
  7. graveolency
  8. graveolent
  9. graver
  10. graveries
  11. graverob

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