Associations to the word «Excrescency»
Wiktionary
EXCRESCENCY, noun. An excrescent state or condition; the quality or fact of growing out of something; abnormal or excessive development; an example of this.
EXCRESCENCY, noun. (obsolete) An exuberant outburst; an extravagance.
EXCRESCENCY, noun. (obsolete) An excrescence; something excrescent; an outgrowth.
EXCRESCENCY, noun. (obsolete) An abnormal, morbid, or unsightly outgrowth.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.