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Putrefaction

noun
1.
A state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor.  Synonym: rot.
2.
(biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action.  Synonyms: decomposition, rot, rotting.
3.
Moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles.  Synonyms: corruption, degeneracy, depravation, depravity.  "Moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration" , "Its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity" , "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction"






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... by intermissions and remissions, and thus include our intermittent and remittent fevers; synochus depended theoretically upon putrefaction of the blood in the vessels, and was a continued fever. Synocha, on the other hand, was occasioned by a mere superabundance of ...
— Gilbertus Anglicus - Medicine of the Thirteenth Century • Henry Ebenezer Handerson

... he looked at them all, the markets which he had left behind him that morning seemed to him like a vast mortuary, an abode of death, where only corpses could be found, a charnel-house reeking with foul smells and putrefaction. He slackened his steps, and rested in that kitchen garden, as after a long perambulation amidst deafening noises and repulsive odours. The uproar and the sickening humidity of the fish market had departed from him; and he felt as ...
— The Fat and the Thin • Emile Zola

... we prevent this cry from escaping us? For these hapless ones, enjoy, laugh, sing, please, and love exist, persist; but there is a death-rattle in sing, a grating sound in laugh, putrefaction in enjoy, there are ashes in please, there is night in love. All these joys are attached to their destiny ...
— The Memoirs of Victor Hugo • Victor Hugo

... the Empire which he ruled. And yet the piety of Noah, the faith of Abraham, the wisdom of Moses, and the stoicism of Aurelius have proved alike a spiritual power,—the precious salt which was to preserve humanity from the putrefaction of almost universal selfishness and vice, until the new revelation should arouse the human soul to a more serious contemplation of ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume IV • John Lord

... it to be a disputable thing. After affirming his notion he added, "If the world had a beginning, and if men were once earth-born, then must they have been, in all probability, either generated as worms, out of putrefaction, or else out of eggs." But the question comes up for an answer, From ...
— The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 12, December, 1880 • Various


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