stimulancy

Meanings

nounstimulancy (uncountable)

uncountableThe quality of being stimulating.
It would be well if his already over-wrought stimulancy could be somewhat tranquillized and enriched by the languor and sluggishness of the tropics.
1857, William Greenough Thayer Shedd, “Africa and Colonization.” An address delivered before the Massachusetts Colonization Society, May 27, 1857, page 15
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Let then its comparative merits and demerits, in respect of style and stimulancy, possess a proportional weight, and no more, in determining your judgment for or against its contents.
1839, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, Aids to Reflection, page liii
And if the water offered to us has been as fresh as the wit, and the wine as old and rich as the recollections, then recollections and wit have had especial charm and stimulancy.
1851, The Monthly Christian spectator, page 231
uncountableThe act of stimulating; stimulation.
I conceive extemporaneous worship has hitherto prevailed, because the appetite for devotion has needed the stimulancy of human passion and social excitement.
1864, R.M. Abercrombie, The Prayer Book and Its Story: Principally Designed for the Young
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The above work is edited by Sir Charles's sister-in-law, and is composed of many pleasantly-written letters, collected from friends and relations, most of them written by Sir Charles under the stimulancy of fresh scenery, or visits to famous geological sections, or to celebrated geologists.
1882, Hardwicke's Science-gossip, page 111
Unquestionably the first step in this direction was made by Dr. Priestley, of Birmingham, who observed that oxygen gas was given off by plants when under the active stimulancy of sunlight.
2013, John Ellor Taylor, The Aquarium: Its Inhabitants, Structure, and Management, →ISBN, page 10