Meaning of graveolence | Babel Free

Definitions

A strong offensive smell; rancidity.

rare, uncountable

Examples

“[…] to destroy in the flower of its beauty, then ruthlessly casts it from him as a rank and loathsome weed, without reflecting that he first robbed it of its redolence; was himself the cause of that graveolence which he then finds so offensive.”

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