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graveolency

graveolency is the alternative form of graveolence.

Meaning of graveolence

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

Questions about graveolency

What is graveolency the alternative form of?
Graveolency is the alternative form of graveolence.

Words near graveolency in the dictionary

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

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