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Synonyms for incense

Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : in-sens
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɪn sɛns

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Définition 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

Antonyms for incense

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