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The term "vellication" is employed in literature with dual connotations. In some contexts, it refers to a bodily process akin to a twitch or jerk—an interpretation that underscores its physical, almost mechanical nature, as seen in the definition equating it with "twitch" and "jerk" [1]. In other contexts, "vellication" embodies a popular concept tied to aesthetic practices involving the removal of natural bodily coverings, such as the bushy growth sometimes referred to as a "veil of nature" in women [2] and the axilla-pile [3]. Additionally, the literature notes that while the initial experience of vellication may be painful, the skin eventually adapts to it [4].
  1. twitch , n. jerk ; twitching, vellication.-- v. jerk , snatch , vellicate.
    — from Putnam's Word Book A Practical Aid in Expressing Ideas Through the Use of an Exact and Varied Vocabulary by Louis A. (Louis Andrew) Flemming
  2. [FN#376] This is the popular idea of a bushy "veil of nature" in women: it is always removed by depilatories and vellication.
    — from The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04
  3. In the case of the axilla-pile, vellication is the popular process: see vol.
    — from The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 14
  4. At first vellication is painful but the skin becomes used to it.
    — from The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 02

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