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  • n  extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to cause disease)
  • n  extreme hostility

  • Two days in a hospital gave him time to reflect on the "black widow's" virulency.
  • Immediately he sent for a dozen ferrets on which to test the virulency of the germs which were causing the Hagerstown trouble.

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