festering

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of fester

noun

  1. The condition of something that festers.
    […] discontent would creep in and breed festerings and mortifications in the New Moral World, or else decree its fate more rapidly by effecting its dissolution. 1842, Bradshaw’s Journal, volume III, page 89

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