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- noun Plural form of
excrescency .
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"excrescencies," "exaggerations," and the like -- and sets up a novel system of aesthetics, which professes to rest upon Goethe -- since he, too, was averse to prodigious monstrosities, and was good enough to invent "artistic calm and beauty" in lieu thereof.
On Conducting (Üeber Das Dirigiren) : a Treatise on Style in the Execution of Classical Music, Richard Wagner 1848
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We do have a lot of antagonisms because the Irish people and the English people are very different, tempermentally, but by an art, you go down to the fundamental, down into something which is deeply in tune with those human beings and it is in the excrescencies where you are far apart.
The Theatre 1935
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Will the falling off of excrescencies enervate the principles that commenced and must finish the work?
North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840 A Documentary History Charles Lee 1915
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The strength of the opposition tones down and polishes off all such ugly excrescencies as that.
A Voice From the South Anna Julia 1892
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They seemed rather ephemeral excrescencies which shoot far out with all the vigor and promise, apparently, of strong branches; but soon alas fall into decay and ugliness because there is no soundness in the root, no life-giving sap, permeating, strengthening and perpetuating the whole.
A Voice From the South Anna Julia 1892
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Stoics will not allow in him who is perfectly wise, and a philosopher; but assert them to be weaknesses dwelling in vulgar breasts, that have not yet lopped off the excrescencies of the sensitive appetite, nor subdued their passions to the lure and dictates of right reason.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V. 1634-1716 1823
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But this raised a great scruple in me, whether a fame increased by imposition of others is to be added to his account, or that these excrescencies, which grow out of his real reputation, and give encouragement to others to pass things under the covert of his name, should be considered in giving him his seat in the Chamber?
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer Jonathan Swift 1706
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_Microscope_, certain excrescencies or Ebullitions in the snuff of a
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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There are often to be found upon Rose-trees and Brier bushes, little red tufts, which are certain knobs or excrescencies, growing out from the Rind, or barks of those kinds of Plants, they are cover'd with strange kinds of threads or red hairs, which feel very soft, and look not unpleasantly.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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Take that seedy end (then very tender) and pick from it the little excrescencies about it, and cut it into short pieces, and boil them and dress them as you would do Pease; and they will taste like Pease, and be very savoury.
The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened Kenelm Digby 1634
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