livor
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ˈlaɪvɔː/
  • (GA) IPA: /ˈlaɪvɔəɹ/, /ˈlaɪvɔɹ/, /ˈlaɪvəɹ/
Noun

livor

  1. (pathology) Skin discoloration, as from a bruise, or occurring after death.
  2. (obsolete) Malice.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗:
      , New York Review of Books, 2001, p.66:
      To see a man […] magnify 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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