Definition of "purulence" [pu•ru•lence]

• The condition of containing or discharging pus. (noun)
• Pus. (noun)

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• "No, the purulence of a diseased sensibility, and its leakage into the blogosphere and elsewhere, will suffice: by the odour of decay you may know them."
• "*Although the link between microorganisms and infection was yet to be established, the connection between pus—purulence—and sepsis, fever, and death, often arising from an abscess or wound, was well known to Bennett."
• "Even Vanna White cannot hope to match the purulence that is"