putrescence

Borrowed from Medieval Latin putrēscentia.

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putrescence (countable and uncountable, plural putrescences)

1. The condition of being putrid; decay
2. Putrid matter
   • 1791, Presbyterio-Catholicon:

     Hot, and precipitate, and zealous, as has been the assiduity, with which the public eye is blinkled by this glittering putrescence of rotten policy, and the public ear is deaffened by a vapid and senseless jargon of political bombast, [...]

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putrescence f (plural putrescences)

1. putrescence

• “putrescence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012