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mordancies

mordancies is the plural of mordancy.

Meaning of mordancy

Noun

mordancy (countable and uncountable, plural mordancies)

  1. The state or quality of being mordant.
    • Despite their name--and the name of their record--any morbidity or malice the Ships harbor is aggressively sublimated into relentlessly upbeat, largely staccato indie pop, with just a tinge of mordancy in the lyrics and the lap steel (which they underutilize criminally).2007 February 16, “The Treatment”, in Chicago Reader

Questions about mordancies

What is mordancies the plural of?
Mordancies is the plural of mordancy.

Words near mordancies in the dictionary

  1. mordacious
  2. mordaciously
  3. mordacities
  4. mordacity
  5. Mordad
  6. mordancies
  7. mordancy
  8. mordant
  9. mordant dye
  10. mordanted
  11. mordanting

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