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vehemencies

vehemencies is the plural of vehemency.

Meaning of vehemency

Noun

vehemency (countable and uncountable, plural vehemencies)

  1. (archaic) Vehemence.
    • Preachers know that the emotion which surpriseth them whilst they are in their earnest speech doth animate them towards belief, and that being angrie we more violently give our selves to defend our proposition, emprint it in our selves, and embrace the same with more vehemencie and approbation than...1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter XII, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

Questions about vehemencies

What is vehemencies the plural of?
Vehemencies is the plural of vehemency.

Words near vehemencies in the dictionary

  1. vegs out
  2. vegtable
  3. veh
  4. vehemence
  5. vehemences
  6. vehemencies
  7. vehemency
  8. vehement
  9. vehemently
  10. vehementness
  11. Vehes

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