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English
Etymology
From Latin fellifluus, from fel (“gall”) + fluere (“to flow”).
Adjective
fellifluous (comparative more fellifluous, superlative most fellifluous)
- (uncommon) Full of bile or gall; audacious.
1795, Paul Henri Thiry Holbach, translated by William Hodgson, The System of Nature: Or, The Laws of the Moral and Physical World:Truth never reveals itself either to the enthusiast smitten with his own reveries; to the fellifluous fanatic enslaved by his prejudices; to the vain glorious mortal puffed up with his own presumptuous ignorance […]
1924, Ben Hecht, The Kingdom of Evil: A Continuation of the Journal of Fantazius Mallare, page 48:Its claws scratch at the back of his eyeballs and cause him to see visions, to shriek with fevers, to choke in the embrace of fetid and fellifluous chimeras […]
1950 [5th century CE], Caelius Aurelianus, translated by I. E. Drabkin, On Acute Diseases and On Chronic Diseases, page 417:The disease of cholera, according to some, derives its name from the flow of bile that takes place from mouth and bowels, cholera being, so to speak, ‘the fellifluous disease.’
2007, Dannie Abse, The Presence, →ISBN, page 150:Behind a counter two young women, both evidently Asian, served a queue including a tipsy fellifluous Irishman.
2022, Pierre Legrand, Negative Comparative Law: A Strong Programme for Weak Thought, →ISBN, page 375:What could ever be termed defeatist or pessimistic – what could ever be called fellifluous – about such ideas?
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