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Festering vs Fettering - What's the difference?

festering | fettering |

As verbs the difference between festering and fettering

is that festering is while fettering is .

As nouns the difference between festering and fettering

is that festering is the condition of something that festers while fettering is the act by which something is fettered or constricted.

festering

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The condition of something that festers.
  • * 1842 , Bradshaw's Journal (volume 3, page 89)
    • discontent would creep in and breed festerings and mortifications in the New Moral World, or else decree its fate more rapidly by effecting its dissolution.

    fettering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is fettered or constricted.
  • * 2003 , Marva J. Dawn, Unfettered Hope (page xii)
    • Through this book's exploration of various kinds of fetterings and of one method for thinking beyond them, I want to demonstrate the unique and unfettered hope of the Christian faith.