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Exacerbation   /ɪgzˌæsərbˈeɪʃən/   Listen
noun
Exacerbation  n.  
1.
The act of rendering more violent or bitter; the state of being exacerbated or intensified in violence or malignity; as, exacerbation of passion.
2.
(Med.) A periodical increase of violence in a disease, as in remittent or continuous fever; an increased energy of diseased and painful action.





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"Exacerbation" Quotes from Famous Books



... incite its justification; and resentment can never so exactly balance the punishment with the fault, but there will remain an overplus of vengeance which even he who condemns his first action will think himself entitled to retaliate. What then can ensue but a continual exacerbation of hatred, an unextinguishable feud, an incessant reciprocation of mischief, a mutual vigilance to entrap, and eagerness ...
— The Works of Samuel Johnson - Volume IV [The Rambler and The Adventurer] • Samuel Johnson
... exacerbation is not to be mistaken. It comes, we believe, from a consciousness of anaemia, a frenetic reaction towards what used, some years ago, to be ...
— Aspects of Literature • J. Middleton Murry


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