putrescence
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editputrescence (countable and uncountable, plural putrescences)
- The condition of being putrid; decay
- Putrid matter
- 1791, Presbyterio-Catholicon:
- Hot, and precipitate, and zealous, as has been the assiduity, with which the public eye is blinkled by this glittering putrescence of rotten policy, and the public ear is deaffened by a vapid and senseless jargon of political bombast, [...]
- 1791, Presbyterio-Catholicon:
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editputrescence f (plural putrescences)
Further reading
edit- “putrescence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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