Festerment

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A festering.

    "those misadventures and pettier miseries of life , which , if not so alleviated , would keep us in a state of continual festerment"

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"those misadventures and pettier miseries of life , which , if not so alleviated , would keep us in a state of continual festerment"

Etymology

From fester + -ment.

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