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Defervescence; Defervescency
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Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. A subsiding from a state of ebullition; loss of heat; lukewarmness. A defervescency in holy actions. Jer. Taylor.
2. The subsidence of a febrile process; as, the stage of defervescence in pneumonia.