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excrescencies

n. (plural of excrescency English)

Usage examples of "excrescencies".

Lastly, the devouter sisters, who looked upon all extraordinary dilatations of that member as protrusions of zeal, or spiritual excrescencies, were sure to honor every head they sat upon, as if they had been marks of grace.

He says, they were a race of men, who delighted to nibble at the superfluities, and excrescencies of books.