Putrefaction
WordNet

noun


(1)   Moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
"The luxury and corruption among the upper classes"
"Moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"
"Its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"
"Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction"
(2)   (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action
(3)   A state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor
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Etymology


Coined between 1350 and 1400 from from , from , perfect passive participle of

Noun



  1. the act of causing to rot; the anaerobic splitting of proteins by bacteria and fungi with the formation of malodorous, incompletely oxidized products
  2. rotted material
  3. the state of being rotted
 
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