flaccidity

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So he retired into the niche of the fireplace where he had used to sit, and there he continued, watching the steam from the double row of bank-notes as they waved backwards and forwards in the draught of the chimney till their flaccidity was changed to dry crispness throughout.

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  1. Same as flaccidness. The viscidity of the juices and the flaccidity of the fibres would, … by proper remedies and a due regimen, be removed. G. Cheyne, Health, vii.
  2. A disease of silkworms, due to fermentation of the food in the intestinal canal, and caused by one of the bacteria, Micrococcus Bombycis. Also called flachery or (as French) flacherie, or (as Italian) flaccidezza. When the symptoms are observed we may be sure that the worms are attacked by flaccidity. Riley, Silk-Culture, p. 36.

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  • He was repelled by its limp flaccidity, by this touch which was without communication, without desire. —  A Mind to Murder-P D James-Dalgiesh 02
  • As I'd suspected, its target demographic is the dude plagued with emasculating flaccidity. —  I Blame The Patriarchy
  • "Gepco's G-Flex jacket compound ... offers additional flaccidity and flex-life ..." —  Gearwire -
  • It takes nothing for a penis to move from flaccidity to a toughened erection which can easily turn into ejaculation.
  • Whereas, Mr Harper's failure to rise in defence of free speech showed a flaccidity below my lowest expectations. —  PTBC J-Log
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  1. = French flaccidité, from Latin as if *flaccidita(t-)s, from flaccidus, flaccid: see flaccid.
 

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