graveolence

English

Etymology

From Latin graveolentia. Compare French gravéolence. See graveolent.

Noun

graveolence (uncountable)

1. (rare) A strong offensive smell; rancidity.
   • 1841, William Hodgson, The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte:

     […] to destroy in the flower of its beauty, then ruthlessly casts it from him as a rank and loathsome weed, without reflecting that he first robbed it of its redolence; was himself the cause of that graveolence which he then finds so offensive.