Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Muddiness; foulness; the quality of being foul with extraneous matter or lees.
- noun That which is feculent; sediment; dregs; excrementitious matter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being feculent; muddiness; foulness.
- noun That which is feculent; sediment; lees; dregs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
feculent .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun something that is feculent
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Examples
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The Rev. Ian Dingwall is an acolyte in the peddling of meaningless drivel masquerading as Christianity; the medium is the Niagara Anglican paper, the audience is almost all gone and the message is a swirling feculence making its way down the plug-hole of eternity:
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The Rev. Ian Dingwall is an acolyte in the peddling of meaningless drivel masquerading as Christianity; the medium is the Niagara Anglican paper, the audience is almost all gone and the message is a swirling feculence making its way down the plug-hole of eternity:
Rev. Ian Dingwall talking to himself « Anglican Samizdat 2009
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"The only one I wish to mock is thee, thou miserable excuse for feculence!"
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So, donate today or I will have to start buying commercial remedies to absorb feline feculence.
Thrusting in the Diocese of Niagara « Anglican Samizdat 2009
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During the last 50 years the ACoC has worked diligently at generating and distributing sewage: feculence falls from on high to be shovelled and distributed evenly by diligent parish priests and wardens.
The Anglican Church of Canada tackles sewage « Anglican Samizdat 2009
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I'm so pleased to report the well written script sent me scuttling to the dictionary several times with vocabulary-above-a-ninth grade-level, like scutes, limn and I love saying this word feculence.
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A city that has as much opulence as it does feculence, there are over 1250 miles of underground sewage piping in Paris.
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Few others could have pulled off turning our feculence into fascination.
Garbage Land: Summary and book reviews of Garbage Land by Elizabeth Royte. 2005
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How did they ever manage the feculence that accrued during the voyage.
What a load 2005
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How did they ever manage the feculence that accrued during the voyage.
Archive 2005-07-24 2005
MaryW commented on the word feculence
William Goldman, The Princess BrideDecember 26, 2015