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livor - What does it mean?

Definition of 'livor'

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (pathology) Skin discoloration, as from a bruise, or occurring after death.
  • (obsolete) Malice.
  • *, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.66:
  • To see a manmagnify his friend unworthy with hyperbolical elogiums; his enemy, albeit a good man, to vilify and disgrace him, yea, all his actions, with the utmost livor and malice can invent.
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