flagrance
English
editNoun
editflagrance (uncountable)
- 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
edit- “flagrance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
French
editEtymology
editultimately from Latin flagrare 'to burn, urge'
Pronunciation
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Noun
editflagrance f (plural flagrances)
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “flagrance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.