All 3 Uses of
putrid
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Imagine some foul and putrid corpse that has lain rotting and decomposing in the grave, a jelly-like mass of liquid corruption.†
Chpt 3 *
- Just as in dead bodies worms are engendered by putrefaction, so in the souls of the lost there arises a perpetual remorse from the putrefaction of sin, the sting of conscience, the worm, as Pope Innocent the Third calls it, of the triple sting.†
Chpt 3
- Just as in dead bodies worms are engendered by putrefaction, so in the souls of the lost there arises a perpetual remorse from the putrefaction of sin, the sting of conscience, the worm, as Pope Innocent the Third calls it, of the triple sting.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(putrid) rotting (an advanced state of decomposition) with a foul odor; or anything that is disgusting