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macilency Now rare.|ˈmæsɪlənsɪ|
[See prec. and -ency.]
Leanness. lit. and fig.
1632Sandys Ovid's Metam. xiv. Notes 484 His [sc. a Heron's] vigilant feare,..macilency, and pittiful screamings. 1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter i. 6 These effects [of intemperance] are,..2. Macilency of grace. 1798C. Crowther in Beddoes Contrib. Phys. & Med. Knowl. (1799) 350 From a state of extreme macilency [she] became obese. 1822Blackw. Mag. XII. 525 On recollecting the macilency of the Parisians, he justly inferred, that double the number of French people might inhabit London..without inconvenience. |