festerment
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]festerment (plural festerments)
- A festering.
- Synonym: fester
- 1834, Thomas Chalmers, On the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God:
- those misadventures and pettier miseries of life , which , if not so alleviated , would keep us in a state of continual festerment
Further reading
[edit]- “festerment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.