putrescence - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
English
Noun
putrescence (countable and uncountable, plural putrescences)
- The condition of being putrid; decay
- Putrid matter
- ✤ 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, […]1
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin putrēscentia.
Pronunciation
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Printed 2026-07-17.
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Footnotes
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1791, Presbyterio-Catholicon: ↩