VIR'ULENCE, 'ULENCY, noun [from virulent.] 1. That renders it extremely active in doing injury; acrimony; malignancy; as the virulence of poison. 2. Acrimony of temper; extreme bitterness or malignity; as the virulence of enmity or malice; the virulence of satire; to attack a man with virulence
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