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  • noun Plural form of virulence.

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  • An hundred new contrivances in my head, and in my heart, that to be honest, as it is called, must all be given up, by a heart delighting in intrigue and difficulty — Miss Howe’s virulences endeavoured to be recollected — yet recollection refusing to bring them forward with the requisite efficacy — I had certainly been a lost man, had not Dorcas come seasonably in with a letter. —

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

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