Definition for TUR-GES'CENCE, or TUR-GES'CEN-CY

TUR-GES'CENCE, or TUR-GES'CEN-CY, n. [L. turgescens.]

  1. The act of swelling.
  2. The state of being swelled. Brown.
  3. Empty pompousness; inflation; bombast.

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