Usage examples (34)

• putrefaction is a major component of body decomposition.
• Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction
• He (that is, man) as a rotten thing, the principle of whose putrefaction is in itself, consumes, even like a moth-eaten garment, which becomes continually worse and worse.
• He was looking at it as though it were an animal, days dead and far gone in putrefaction, that had been malevolently dumped on a pristine altar consecrated to solemn...