putrescence

Noun

 * 1) The condition of being putrid; decay
 * 2) Putrid matter
 * 3) * 1791, Presbyterio-Catholicon:
 * Hot, and precipitate, and zealous, as has been the assiduity, with which the public eye is blinkled by this glittering putrescence of rotten policy, and the public ear is deaffened by a vapid and senseless jargon of political bombast, [...]