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- noun Plural form of
putridity .
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Examples
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Glaciere; putrid, under putridities: the horror of the world.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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I could go back to a time when that plain, now covered, alas! with the putridities of superstition, was the scene of churches in which the gospel was preached, of homes in which the Bible was read, of happy death-beds, and blessed graves, -- graves in which, in the sublime words of our catechism, "the bodies of the saints being still united to
Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge James Aitken Wylie 1849
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