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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "excrescence" in a sentence

    excrescence example sentences

    excrescence


    1. excrescence on the artery is then formed, cal ed a plaque of lat


    2. excrescence, which, limber and relaxed after the late enjoyment, now


    3. folding lips, the softness of which, yielding entry to any thing of a hard body, close round it, and oppose the sight; and feeling further, meets with, and wonder at, a soft fleshy excrescence, which, limber and relaxed after the late enjoyment, now grew, under the touch and examination of his fiery fingers, more and more stiff and considerable, till the titillating ardours of that so sensible part made me sigh, as if he had hurt me; on which he withdrew his curious probing fingers, asking me pardon, as it were, in a kiss that rather increased the flame there


    4. One only he saw,—a sleek gray fellow, flattened against a gray dead limb so that he seemed a part of it, a woody excrescence upon the wood itself


    5. ’Tis neither Rude Excrescence nor Gothick Error; ’tis neither too flat nor too high, but a Harmony entire of Serpentine Curves


    6. It is a whole language within a language, a sort of sickly excrescence, an unhealthy graft which has produced a vegetation, a parasite which has its roots in the old Gallic trunk, and whose sinister foliage crawls all over one side of the language


    7. For the most part they are the excrescence of society, just as perverted, though in a different manner, as are those criminal types whom you consider below the level of the average


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    Synonyms for "excrescence"

    excrescence bulge bump extrusion gibbosity gibbousness hump jut prominence protrusion protuberance swelling outgrowth growth cancer

    "excrescence" definitions

    something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings


    (pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body