excrudescence

excrudescence

English

Noun

excrudescence (plural excrudescences)

1. A symbolic abnormal outgrowth.
   • 1982, Stephen R. Donaldson, 'The One Tree, page 29:

     "His beard seemed to bristle like an excrudescence of pain."

   • 1994, Katherine Kearns, 'Robert Frost and a Poetics of Appetite‎, page 23:

     "To complicate the Apillonian allusion in this well-centered landscape, Apollo's relationship to water remains complex: to establish the oracle at Delphi, Apollo kills the Python, a giant (female) excrudescence raised from the mud of the flood, as it lies by a clear spring."

   • 2006, Nancy K. Stade, 'The Desert Crop‎, page 354:

     "She's wallowing in the sloughed excrudescence of my earthly self; she's gumming the punctured and bruised dermis of the hand that feeds."