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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