Antonyms for incense

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : in-sens

Phonetic Transcription : ˈɪn sɛns

Definition of incense

Origin : late 13c., from Old French encens "sweet-smelling substance," from Late Latin incensum (nominative incensus) "burnt incense," literally "something burnt," neuter past participle of Latin incendere "set on fire" (see incendiary).

noun strongly fragrant smoke
verb make very angry

Example sentences :

He worships every handsome woman, who will allow herself to be polluted by his incense.
Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child

No doubt she could evolve a delicious gum from the mesquite and the incense plant.
Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter

His nostrils tasted the incense of fresh earth and growing things.
Extract from : « The Monster Men » by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Every day some new matter was reported to incense her against me.
Extract from : « Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Complete » by Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre

They spoke to him in a language of love, warm, fragrant as incense.
Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola

I have the fragrance of incense in the inmost parts of my being.
Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola

They must have become quite saturated with incense; and I am like one of them.
Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola

But my tone was respectful, for it could profit me nothing to incense him.
Extract from : « The Shame of Motley » by Raphael Sabatini

There was sweet singing in this chapel and a fragrant smell of incense.
Extract from : « Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land » by Henry Van Dyke

From day to day all changes, where I burn my incense to my thousand little gods.
Extract from : « The Little Dream (Second Series Plays) » by John Galsworthy

Synonyms for incense

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