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pustulent en · ADJ

Etymology

From pustule + -ent.

Meanings

1. Filled or oozing with pus.
   • His body was dead white where it was not cruelly galled, bitten, rasped; his colourless face puffy, sweat-swollen, corpse-like, a tangled yellow beard covering his mouth; his eyes were red and pustulent. 1994, Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain, →ISBN, page 114:
   • a pustulent sore
2. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of pustulant, "producing pustules"
   alt of pustulant

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pustulence