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
These cultures, left alone without any possible external contamination, undergo, in the course of time, modifications of their virulency to a greater or less extent.
From A History of Science — Volume 4 by Williams, Henry Smith
And the prophets, in spite of their virulency, produced the highest forms of artistic beauty.
From The Literature of Ecstasy by Mordell, Albert
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 Lacroix, John Victor
The controversy between the two is noted for the virulency of the personal invective. with hideous ruin.
From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Zeitlin, Jacob
