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Graveolence

noun

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Noun
  1. 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."

Etymology

From Latin graveolentia. Compare French gravéolence. See graveolent.

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