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Definition of Putridities
1. putridity [n] - See also: putridity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Putridities
Literary usage of Putridities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Epitome of the history of medicine by Roswell Park (1901)
"His treatment and remedies for diseases were supposed to be antiseptic, as was
very proper when dealing with putridities. The theory known as the " Doctrine ..."
2. Annual Report by Indiana State Board of Health (1886)
"The mucus membrane of the intestinal canal seems to especially bear the stress
of all accidental putridities which enter the blood. ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly (1889)
"The mucous membrane of the intestinal canal is the excreting surface to which
nature directs all the accidental putridities which enter us ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1889)
"The membrane of the intestinal canal is the excreting surf» which nature directs
all the accidental putridities which us. Whether they have been breathed, ..."
5. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1899)
"... a woman-born man is, and to find his real counterpart in squirming worms, his
perfect analogue in putridity, and worm-breeding putridities at that. ..."
6. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... the trembling mother, hastily seized, could not leave her infant), lie heaped
in that Glaciere ; putrid, under putridities: the horror of the world. ..."
7. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to ...by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe (1886)
"For neither must some putridities be so collected and brought together, that the
parts which are sound and whole should be injured ; nor is that pastor ..."
8. The Christian Examiner edited by Edward Everett Hale (1861)
"It is not perhaps too much to say, that " festered passions " and " putridities
of civilization " are a little strong. — Hamlet's query seems pat: "And ..."
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