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Webster 1828 Edition

Festering

FES'TERING

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ppr.

Rankling; growing virulent.

Definition 2024

festering

festering

English

Verb

festering

present participle of fester

Noun

festering ‎(plural festerings)

The condition of something that festers.
- 1842, Bradshaw's Journal (volume 3, page 89)
  […] 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.