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Webster 1913 Edition

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Adj.

Being in a state of suppressed activity; quiet but not dead.

Some evil chance
Will make the

smoldering

scandal break and blaze.

Tennyson.

, SMOULDRY,

Adj.

[a word formed from mold, molder. and therefore it ought to be written smoldering.] Burning and smoking without vent.

See also: smoldering

smouldering

present participle of smoulder
- Tennyson
  Some evil chance / Will make the smouldering scandal break and blaze.

smouldering ‎(plural smoulderings)

(sometimes figuratively) The act by which something smoulders; residual heat.
the smoulderings of the Thirty Years War