Graveolence
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A strong offensive smell; rancidity. rare, uncountable
"[…] to destroy in the flower of its beauty, then ruthlessly casts it from him as a rank and loathsome weed, without reflecting that he first robbed it of its redolence; was himself the cause of that graveolence which he then finds so offensive."
Example
More examples"[…] to destroy in the flower of its beauty, then ruthlessly casts it from him as a rank and loathsome weed, without reflecting that he first robbed it of its redolence; was himself the cause of that graveolence which he then finds so offensive."
Etymology
From Latin graveolentia. Compare French gravéolence. See graveolent.
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