Obs. [f. as prec.: see -ENCY.] a. The quality or state of growing hot; an instance of the same. b. Anger, passion.
1604. T. Wright, Passions, I. vi. 26. In passions … I could adde welnie eleven more; as, Mercy, Shamefastnesse, Excandescencie, Envy [etc.].
1683. Salmon, Doron Med., I. 159. Causing a Distraction and Excandescency.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., VIII. 306/2. A Hypercatharsis … drives the animal spirits into excandescencies, not easily appeased.
1721–1800. in Bailey.
1822. Eliza Nathan, Langreath, II. 271–2. It raises my excandescency to listen to her. [Said by a lady who uses absurdly pedantic language.]
