mormal means A bad sore; a gangrene or cancer.
Etymology
French mort-mal (“a deadly evil”).
noun
- A bad sore; a gangrene or cancer.“They built their cathedrals, carved their Gothic philosophy into a million intricacies, sang their love-songs, rang their bells, danced and laughed in spite of all the buboes and mormals, the agues and mortal sweats, in spite of stink and worm-eaten flesh and all the inconceivable cruelties of unconquered nature.”