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excrescence
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synonyms: gibbosity, accretion, tumefaction, intumescence ???
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Definition:an abnormal outgrowth
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in the minds of the whole company, that I was an excrescence on the entertainment. And to make it worse, they all asked me from time to time,—in short, whenever they had nothing else to do,—why I didn't enjoy myself?
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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Toward the middle of the platform the longboat, half buried in the hull of the vessel, formed a slight excrescence.
Jules Verne. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea.
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The squirrels were in hiding. One only he saw,—a sleek gray fellow, flattened against a gray dead limb so that he seemed a part of it, a woody excrescence upon the wood itself.
Jack London. The Call of the Wild
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Miss Temple, that girl’s hair must be cut off entirely; I will send a barber to-morrow: and I see others who have far too much of the excrescence
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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We must not be too sagacious in judging people by the little excrescences of their character.
Oliver Wendell Holmes. The Poet at the Breakfast Table
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