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† excanˈdescency Obs.
[f. as prec.: see -ency.]
a. The quality or state of growing hot; an instance of the same.
b. Anger, passion.
1604T. Wright Passions i. vi. 26 In passions..I could adde welnie eleven more; as, mercy..excandescencie, envy, etc. 1683Salmon Doron Med. i. 159 Causing a Distraction and Excandescency. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. viii. 306 A Hypercatharsis..drives the animal spirits into excandescencies, not easily appeased. 1721–1800in Bailey. 1822E. Nathan Langreath II. 271 It raises my excandescency to listen to her. [Said by a lady who uses absurdly pedantic language.] |