Definition of "gangrenes" [gangrenes]

• Plural form of gangrene. (noun)

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• "But it is in evil time that the Duke neglects the cure of these internal gangrenes, for this William de la"
• "From this period, Louis, relieved of all danger from England by the Civil Wars of York and Lancaster, was engaged for several years, like an unfeeling but able physician, in curing the wounds of the body politic, or rather in stopping, now by gentle remedies, now by the use of fire and steel, the progress of those mortal gangrenes with which it was then infected."
• "Rochefoucault, who has torn the veil from so many foul gangrenes of the human heart, says, we find something not altogether unpleasant to us in the misfortunes of our best friends."