Meaning of rottingness | Babel Free

Definitions

Something which is undergoing rot or decomposition.

rare, uncountable

Examples

“He sent women down to the beach to collect the guttings and debris left there, the rottingness of fish which stank so badly, the unsaltable entrails of cod and plaice and porpoise in wooden buckets.”

“[…]I felt as though I could never get away from death and...and rottingness, and I wouldn't talk to him any more. I couldn't.' 'I'm not surprised,' said Willow gently. 'But because I wouldn't talk, Andrew started to come home later and later every day, and then afterwards I found out where he'd been.'”

“In such an enclosing autism the knowledge that God suffers one's agony can be a delivering knowledge indeed: One is not at all a vessel of rottingness; one is a real, living, feeling consciousness, even in the extreme experience of suffering - […]”

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