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flagrance rare.|ˈfleɪgrəns|
[ad. (either directly or through OF. flagrance) L. flagrantia, n. of quality f. flagrant-em flagrant.]
1. lit. Blazing or glowing condition.
1847Blackw. Mag. LXI. 735 We had been brought now to the very flagrance of the dog-star. 1892Baring-Gould Roar of Sea III. liii. 235 Some vent had been found, and the attic was in full flagrance.
2. Of an offence: The quality or state of being flagrant; glaring shamefulness.
1612–15Bp. Hall Contempl. N.T. iv. xv, They bring to him a woman taken in the flagrance of her adultery. 1863Mrs. C. Clarke Shaks. Char. xiii. 321 The shuffling sophistry..is the very flagrance and crassitude of baseness. |