festerment

Etymology

fester + -ment

noun

  1. A festering.
    those misadventures and pettier miseries of life , which , if not so alleviated , would keep us in a state of continual festerment 1834, Thomas Chalmers, On the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God

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