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redolence|ˈrɛdələns|
[a. OF. redolence (Godef.), f. redolent: see -ence.]
1. Sweet smell, fragrance, perfume. Also fig.
c1420Lydg. Assembly of Gods 1611 The wordys of Doctryne yaue gret redolence, In swetness of sauour, to her dysciples all. c1530Remedy Love 213 Breathyng an Aromatike redolence Surmountyng Olibane. c1570Pride & Lowl. (1841) 8 So paynted and so coloured..Nas Floras land..Ne with such verdure, and such redolence. a1691Boyle (J.), We have all the redolence of the perfumes we burn upon his altars. 1791Huddesford Salmag., Illus. Fancy 15 Whose undulating folds dispense Cassia's ambrosial redolence. 1845Blackw. Mag. LVIII. 750 Was not this feeling an echo, a redolence, of the happy, lively sensations [etc.]. 1897Chr. Herald (N.Y.) 13 Oct. 764/2 Migrating into groves of redolence and perpetual fruitage.
†2. Smell, stench. Obs. rare—1.
1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe 58 Al these hee graunted, to bee ridde of his filthy redolence.
So † ˈredolency. Obs. [See ]
1610J. Guillim Heraldry iii. vii. (1611) 116 Flowers for beauty, varietie of colour, and pleasant redolencie. 1658Evelyn Fr. Gard. (1675) 89 The flies so much frequent their flowers and leaves, which attract them with their redolency and juyce. [Copied by Mortimer Husb. (1721) II. 268, whence in Johnson and later Dicts.] |