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- noun Feculence.
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- noun Alternative form of
feculence .
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Examples
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Paracelsus affirming, that by Metals, of Metals, and with Metals, cleansed, Spiritual, and first depurated from their feculency, are made Metals, and the Living
The Golden Calf, Which the World Adores, and Desires John Frederick Helvetius
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Quintilian thinks otherwise, were debased with a mixture of feculency.
De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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Quintilian thinks otherwise, were debased with a mixture of feculency.
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 01: Julius Caesar Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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And as the real source of all this mischief is either a foul and feculent humour or a black and gross vapour, which obscures, empoisons, and contaminates the animal spirits, it is proper afterwards that he should have a bath of pure and clean water, with abundance of whey; to purify, by the water, the feculency of the foul humour, and by the whey to clarify the blackness of the vapour.
Monsieur De Pourceaugnac 1622-1673 Moli��re 1647
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