graveolence

noun

graveolence

noun

Etymology From Latin graveolentia. Compare French gravéolence. See graveolent.

1

Rare A strong offensive smell; rancidity.

[…] to destroy in the flower of its beauty, then ruthlessly casts it from him as a rank and loathsome weed, without reflecting that he first robbed it of its redolence; was himself the cause of that graveolence which he then finds so offensive.1841, William Hodgson, The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte:

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