Sentence example with the word 'virulence'

virulence

acerbity, balefulness, clout, fatality, heartburning, malevolence, muscle power, power struggle, slow burn, ungentleness, weight

Definition n. extreme harmfulness

Last update: September 18, 2015

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On the charge of majestas (high treason) incurred by having left his province for Egypt without the consent of the senate and in defiance of the Sibylline books, he was acquitted; it is said that the judges were bribed, and even Cicero, who had recently attacked Gabinius with the utmost virulence, was persuaded by Pompey to say as little as he could in his evidence to damage his former enemy.   [Please select]

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We forget the exceeding difficulties with which he had to contend, and the virulence of his enemies.   [Please select]

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He fell to cursing his faithful officer with a virulence the like of which he had never yet been known to use.   [Please select]

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Even the virulence of the dreaded Tarantula's bite has been greatly exaggerated.   [Please select]

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For all this chain of hatreds led backwards, and was concentrated with tenfold virulence in his great hatred for his brother.   [Please select]

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Marzio lacked courage, and his virulence boiled most hotly when he had least to fear for his personal safety.   [Please select]

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The larvæ of the genus _Adolia_ are also hairy, and sting with virulence.   [Please select]

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This being so, her poison would have to possess unparalleled virulence to produce a corpse-like inertia no matter which the point attacked.   [Please select]

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Thereafter it continued to exist to a greater or less extent until in 1911 it attained a virulence unequaled before.   [Please select]

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"Hence," says Kossel, "among bovine tuberculosis bacilli there can also occur differences with regard to the virulence."   [Please select]

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The Bee revenging herself intensifies the virulence of her poison; the Sphex putting her grubs' provender to sleep weakens it, reduces it to what is strictly necessary.   [Please select]

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