virulence
noun
quality of being virulent.
virulency
-
a variation of
virulence.
Example Sentences
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Immediately he sent for a dozen ferrets on which to test the virulency of the germs which were causing the Hagerstown trouble.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thirdly, from the virulency of the liquor it ejects, and the sad effects and symptoms that follow it.
From Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon by Robert Hooke
The veterinarian is in no position to estimate the virulency of organisms so introduced; neither can he determine the exact degree of resistance possessed by the subject in any given case.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix
We seem to be approaching to that state which first made such restrictions necessary, and in the further course of time, the disease will probably fall off again, both in virulency and frequency.
From An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases by William Withering
Hence comes the epidemical infection: for how can they escape the contagion of the writings whom the virulency of the calumnies hath not staved off from reading?”
From Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society by Henry Morley
