effluvia in English

noun
1
an unpleasant or harmful odor, secretion, or discharge.
the unwholesome effluvia of decaying vegetable matter

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1. 2 Daemons are forbidden effluvia of the human phantasy, turned sick and evil.

2. 3 Without his casual left guard he was bucket swill, the ugly effluvia that boxers deposit from their lacerated mouths between rounds.

3. “Aethers were invented for the planets to swim in, to constitute electric atmospheres and magnetic effluvia, to convey sensations from one part of our bodies to another, and so on, until all

4. BLOODLETTING INSTRUMENTS IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY AUDREY DAVIS My heart seemed to die within me when I entered this dismal Bagnio, and found my brain assaulted by such insufferable effluvia.

5. View in context No; without a gown, in a shift that was somewhat of the coarsest, and none of the cleanest, Bedewed likewise with some odoriferous effluvia, the produce of the day's labour, with a pitchfork in her hand, Molly Seagrim approached.