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- Latin · derived frome“out”
- English todayemollescence
From Latin e (“out”) + mollescere, inchoate from mollere (“to be soft”), mollis (“soft”). By surface analysis, e- + Latin moll- + -escence.
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emollescence
Today it means: That degree of softness in a body beginning to melt which alters its shape; the first or lowest degree of fusibility. Full definition →
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