Meaning of mormal | Babel Free

Definitions

A bad sore; a gangrene or cancer.

obsolete

Examples

“They built their cathedrals, carved their Gothic philosophy into a million intricacies, sang their love-songs, rang their bells, danced and laughed in spite of all the buboes and mormals, the agues and mortal sweats, in spite of stink and worm-eaten flesh and all the inconceivable cruelties of unconquered nature.”

“The blood feud was old and a mormal between our Families. It undermined cooperation that has since proved very profitable.”

“[…] who, like good surgeons, shall not forbear, with corrosive and sharp medicines, to draw out the festered and stinking cores of old mormals and inveterate sores of the weal public, engendered by the long custom in vice.”

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