festerment

noun

festerment

noun

Etymology From fester + -ment.

1

A festering.

those misadventures and pettier miseries of life , which , if not so alleviated , would keep us in a state of continual festerment1834, Thomas Chalmers, On the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God:

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