Excrescence [noun]

Definition of Excrescence:

protuberance

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Sentence/Example of Excrescence:

Nor are these stories a mere excrescence of theology, but theology itself.

His cowl had half-fallen back, and made a strange excrescence on either side of his bull-neck.

There was a small excrescence or hut on the roof—about ten feet by six in dimensions—which formed—their residence.

Behind this, hiding itself as it were and almost invisible, nestled a smaller excrescence or offshoot.

Accordingly, the Crown has dwindled away in proportion to the unnatural and turgid growth of this excrescence on the Court.

"I don't mind going if a lunch is provided," observed the gentleman with the excrescence on his nose.

The curious excrescence on the bill of the drake nukta or comb-duck is now much enlarged.

And this leads us to a consideration of the Doomsman himself, that foul excrescence upon our modern body politic.

At least, he did whatever was done in the way of governing, and therefore did not sink into a mere excrescence or superfluity.

The slave-traders whom Wilberforce attacked were comparatively a powerless excrescence.