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n. - (toxicology) the state of being capable of counteracting more than one toxin or antigen or kind of microorganism; (chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two.

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  • The marks and their "polyvalence their ability to command a multitude of gestures at once," signal a voice that is oracular in nature.
  • Since Wells 'socialism doesn't quite have the same appeal it did before the collapse of the Soviet Union, an adapter can't rely on the original polyvalence of his writing.
  • Heydt-Stevenson's essay points to what Foucault calls "the tactical polyvalence of discourses" (100): the condescendingly repressive language of the late...
  • The polyvalence of the offer is so flexible that everyone will find an answer to his needs.
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