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- noun Plural form of
putrescence .
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These are not _untrue_ religions; they are the putrescences and foul residues of religions that are extinct, that have plainly to every honest nostril been dead some time, and the remains of which -- O ye eternal Heavens, will the nostril never be delivered from them!
Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838
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We NEED to know who we are voting for or against, unlike these festering putrescences who never put themselves up for election, like those whom they slander.
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_phosphorescence_ from the dead body of a Christianity, that would not admit itself to be dead, and lie buried with all its unspeakable putrescences, as a venerable dead one ought!
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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