festerment
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
festerment (plural festerments)
- A festering.
- 1834, Thomas Chalmers, On the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God:
- those misadventures and pettier miseries of life , which , if not so alleviated , would keep us in a state of continual festerment
Synonyms edit
- fester (noun)
References edit
“festerment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.