flagrance

flagrance (uncountable)

1. flagrancy; obviousness
   • 1646, Bishop Joseph Hall, Satan's Fiery Darts Quenched: Or, Temptations Repelled in Three Decades:

     Should the justice of God have cut off the sinner in the flagrance of his wicked fact, there had been no room for his penitence

• “flagrance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

ultimately from Latin flagrare 'to burn, urge'

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flagrance f (plural flagrances)

1. flagrancy

• flagrant

• “flagrance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.