Noun
Alt. of Virulency
Source: Webster's dictionaryPope has more virulence and less vehemence than any of the great satirists. His character of Sporus is the perfection of satirical writing. The very sound of words scarify before the sense strikes. Aubrey Beardsley
The greater, far the greater number of those who rave and rail, and inquire and accuse, neither suspect nor fear, nor care for the publick; but hope to force their way to riches, by virulence and invective, and are vehement and clamorous, only that they may be sooner hired to be silent. Samuel Johnson
The virulence of the national appetite for bogus revelation. H. L. Mencken
In September 1668, Samuel Megapolensis, the pastor of the Dutch church in the newly created city of New York, wrote to a friend about how the Lord had “visited us with dysentery, which is even now increasing in virulence. Source: Internet
As it replicates it produces multiple mutations, although none has been found to change its virulence. Source: Internet
“If you contrast with ebola, which has very high virulence, kills many, many people, it makes it very controllable and you can very readily identify the infected people. Source: Internet