Pronounced: em-PRIZE, noun
Notes: An old word, but I didn’t know it
Yesterday’s word
The word defervescence is “the abatement of a fever”
First usage
Our word came into English in the early 1700s
Background / Comments
When I saw our word, I thought of effervescence, and thought it might be related, but while they share a root, the meanings are quite different. Our word came from Latin words de- (away from) and fevere (to boil; to be hot). As an interesting side note, this is another word that only contains one vowel.
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