"festering" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1842, Bradshaw’s Journal, volume III, page 89:",
          "text": "[…] discontent would creep in and breed festerings and mortifications in the New Moral World, or else decree its fate more rapidly by effecting its dissolution.",
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        "The condition of something that festers."
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          "word": "fester"
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        "present participle and gerund of fester"
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          "fester#English"
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          "tags": [
            "noun"
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          "word": "fester"
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          "word": "festerment"
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        "gerund",
        "participle",
        "present"
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  "word": "festering"
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    "Pages with entries"
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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          "text": "[…] discontent would creep in and breed festerings and mortifications in the New Moral World, or else decree its fate more rapidly by effecting its dissolution.",
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          "fester#English"
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      "word": "fester"
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    {
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