flagrance

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English

Noun

flagrance (uncountable)

  1. flagrancy; obviousness
    • 1646, Bishop Joseph Hall, Satan's Fiery Darts Quenched: Or, Temptations Repelled in Three Decades:
      Should the justice of God have cut off the sinner in the flagrance of his wicked fact, there had been no room for his penitence

References

French

Etymology

ultimately from Latin flagrare 'to burn, urge'

Pronunciation

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Noun

flagrance f (plural flagrances)

  1. flagrancy

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