feculency

English

Etymology

From Latin faeculentia.[1] Doublet of feculence.

Noun

feculency (countable and uncountable, plural feculencies)

  1. Obsolete form of feculence.
    • 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:
      […] Adam vvas thus abſtracted from humane feculencies, and carryed above the perch and flight of the narrovv and dvvarfie proſpect of mortality; […]

References

  1. ^ “feculency, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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