Both Uses of
fester
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- The preacher's knife had probed deeply into his disclosed conscience and he felt now that his soul was festering in sin.†
Chpt 3 *
- His sins trickled from his lips, one by one, trickled in shameful drops from his soul, festering and oozing like a sore, a squalid stream of vice.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(fester) of an injury: to be inflamed and create pus
generally: get worse -- especially through inattention