Restringency

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Quality or state of being restringent. obsolete, uncountable

    "the juice being pressed out is immediately pleasant in caste , without any thing of that restringency which it had when incorporated with the meat , or flesh of the Apple"

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"the juice being pressed out is immediately pleasant in caste , without any thing of that restringency which it had when incorporated with the meat , or flesh of the Apple"

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