excoriation

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noun

1

The act of excoriating or flaying.

2

The excoriated place, or the state of being excoriated or stripped of the skin; abrasion.

A Perſon of Honour, of a full Body abounding with ſharp Humours, was ſeized with an Herpes on his right Leg. […] [I]t inflamed and ſwelled very much, many Wheals aroſe, and fretted one into another, with great Excoriation.

3

A severe verbal denouncing.

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noun — an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off

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A Perſon of Honour, of a full Body abounding with ſharp Humours, was ſeized with an Herpes on his right Leg. […] [I]t inflamed and ſwelled very much, many Wheals aroſe, and fretted one into another, w

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