virulency

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Immediately he sent for a dozen ferrets on which to test the virulency of the germs which were causing the Hagerstown trouble.

From Time Magazine Archive

The controversy between the two is noted for the virulency of the personal invective. with hideous ruin.

From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Zeitlin, Jacob

These cultures, left alone without any possible external contamination, undergo, in the course of time, modifications of their virulency to a greater or less extent.

From A History of Science — Volume 4 by Williams, Henry Smith

Experience teaches that the natural course and termination in these cases are modified by the location and depth of the injury, virulency of the contagium and resistance of the subject to such infection.

From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor

Hence comes the epidemical infection: for how can they escape the contagion of the writings whom the virulency of the calumnies hath not staved off from reading?”

From Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society by Morley, Henry