exacervation

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exacervation

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From Latin exacervō (“to heap up exceedingly”), from acervus. See ex-, and acervate.

noun exacervations

  1. obsolete, uncountable, usually The act of heaping up. You might as well try to persuade me that any other but Satan dictated the Black List; the very style and manner of the thing, the grandeur of the conception, the multiplication, the conglomeration, the exacervation, (as a body might say to speak plainly) the cumulative exacervation of lies, the hea
  2. uncommon, uncountable, usually A recurrence of a symptom; paroxysm. Recovery now progressively succeeded, as after the former eruptions of matter, for several days, during which his appetite improved, and his strength increased, so that he sat up by day, and rested pretty well at night, still slight evening exacervation continued, followed by night sweats; bowels co

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@misc{exacervation_2026,
  title = {exacervation},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/exacervation},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}