feculencen.
/ˈfɛkjᵿləns/, /ˈfɛkjᵿln̩s/, U.S. /ˈfɛkjələns/ 1. The quality or state of being feculent; foulness. In quot. 1860 figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > foulness or filth > [noun]
fenc897
foulnessOE
foulhead1340
filthiness?1504
lepry1526
fedity1542
leprosy?1555
fulsomeness1563
disdain1590
obscenitya1618
sewer1647
fetidness1704
putridity1823
fetidity1829
disgustingness1851
feculence1860
grunginess1978
society > morality > moral evil > [noun] > moral foulness
foulnessOE
foulhead1340
filthiness?1504
fedity1542
filthery?1546
rottenness1548
feculence1860
1860 Sat. Rev. 7 Apr. 433/2 The fulness, as well as the feculence, of the mercantile body.
2.
a. concrete. Feculent matter; dregs, lees, dross, scum. Also (now chiefly) in stronger sense, filth. literal and figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > [noun]
gorec725
horeeOE
filthOE
foulnessOE
dirta1300
gallc1400
ordurec1400
foulinga1425
harlotry1439
muck1440
noisance1473
horeness1495
vileness1495
naughtiness1533
vility1540
bawdiness1552
vildness1597
snottery1598
soilage1598
sordidity1600
soil?1605
sluttery1607
nastiness1611
bawdry1648
sords1653
crott1657
feculence1662
nast1789
clart1808
schmutz1838
crap1925
grunge1965
gunge1969
grot1971
spooge1987
the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > foulness or filth > foul thing > [noun]
fouleOE
dung?c1225
carrion?1529
feculence1662
nastiness1831
muck1882
stinking fish1935
grunge1965
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > [noun] > polluting agent
drossc1440
defilement1571
foulagea1603
feculency1608
feculence1662
contamination1806
pollutant1892
contaminant1934
crud1943
1662 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist (new ed.) §24. 17 How forcibly Nature will throw out the feculence.
a1665 K. Digby Closet Opened (1669) 121 It is not amiss that some feculence lie thick upon the Ale.
1708 J. Philips Cyder i. 19 Contriv'd To draw th' Earth's purest Spirit, and resist It's Feculence.
1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Second 37 All Feculence of Falshood long thrown down.
1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature V. 365 Slaves of dulness and ignorance, who drudge in feculance.
1802 F. W. Blagdon tr. P. S. Pallas Trav. Southern Provinces Russ. Empire I. 86 Calcareous constituents, which may be easily recognized in the feculence or foam of the sea.
1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 116 Eel..often taste of the weeds and feculence where they dwell.
1855 Faraday in B. Jones Life (1870) II. 363 Near the bridges the feculence rolled up in clouds.
b. = faeces n. 2.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > faeces > [noun]
gorec725
mixeOE
quedeeOE
turdeOE
dungOE
worthinga1225
dirta1300
drega1300
naturea1325
fen1340
ordurec1390
fimea1475
merd1486
stercory1496
avoidc1503
siegec1530
fex1540
excrement1541
hinder-fallings1561
gong1562
foil1565
voiding1577
pilgrim-salvec1580
egestion1583
shita1585
sir-reverence1592
purgament1597
filinga1622
faecesa1625
exclusion1646
faecality1653
tantadlin1654
surreverence1655
draught1659
excrementitiousness1660
jakes1701
old golda1704
dejection1728
dejecture1731
shitea1733
feculence1733
doll1825
crap1846
excreta1857
excretes1883
hockey1886
dejecta1887
job1899
number two1902
mess1903
ming1923
do1930
tomtit1930
pony1931
No. 21937
dog shit1944
Shinola1944
big job1945
biggie1953
doo-doo1954
doings1957
gick1959
pooh1960
pooh-pooh1962
dooky1965
poopy1970
whoopsie1973
pucky1980
jobbie1981
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > [noun] > polluted or defiled condition
sulliedness1571
impurity1598
defiledness1607
dregginess1608
drossiness1638
feculency1651
feculence1733
branfulness1879
1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. vii. 188 The Peristaltick Motion, so necessary..[to] the Expulsion of the Feculence.
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