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Use "excrescences" in a sentence
"Had to look up "excrescences"--and I'm glad I did!"
"As Gothe was his own marter, his excrescences were the more easily forgiven, because of their consistency with his principles and with each other, of a certain moderation he observed in them, and of his affability towards all he conversed with; but his school is the most ridiculous that can be conceived."
""excrescences," were taken down and removed to other parts of the church."