Meanings
nounfeculency (countable and uncountable, plural feculencies)
plural feculencies
- countableobsoleteuncountableObsolete form of feculence.
[…] Adam vvas thus abſtracted from humane feculencies, and carryed above the perch and flight of the narrovv and dvvarfie proſpect of mortality; […]
1663, Edward Waterhous[e], chapter XLII, in Fortescutus Illustratus; or A Commentary on that Nervous Treatise De Laudibus Legum Angliæ, Written by Sir John Fortescue Knight, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Roycroft for Thomas Dicas […], →OCLC, page 487
Origin
- Latinfaeculentia
- Englishfeculency
From Latin faeculentia. Doublet of feculence.
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feculency. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/feculency
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