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Effluvium

noun
(pl. effluvia)
1.
A foul-smelling outflow or vapor (especially a gaseous waste).






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"Effluvium" Quotes from Famous Books



... would humbly affirm, as free from prejudice as falls to the lot of the most highly favored individuals of our species. To be sure, I have heard Him say that 'what were called strong prejudices were in fact only the repulsion of sensitive organizations from that moral and even physical effluvium through which some natures by providential appointment, like certain unsavory quadrupeds, gave warning of their neighborhood. Better ten mistaken suspicions of this kind than one close encounter.' ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell

... been seated many minutes before the liquor in the vessel boiled over, adding fresh stains to the table, and rising in fumes with a disagreeable odor. Shelley snatched the glass quickly, and dashing it in pieces among ashes under the grate, increased the unpleasant and penetrating effluvium." ...
— Stories of Authors, British and American • Edwin Watts Chubb



Words linked to "Effluvium" :   discharge, emission



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