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What is the noun for fomenting?

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fomentation
  1. The act of fomenting; the application of warm, soft, medicinal substances, as for the purpose of easing pain by relaxing the skin, or of discussing (dispersing) tumours.
  2. A lotion or poultice applied to a diseased or injured part of the body.
  3. Encouragement; excitation; instigation.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Self-help measures such as fomentation, cold packs, gentle massage with topical agents to relieve pain can be very soothing.”
      “The reasons for the fomentation of militancy have been spectacularly perpetuated by your very own government.”
      “More than any military operation, this kind of power projection works against the fomentation of militant hatred towards them.”
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fomentations
  1. plural of fomentation
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Peat baths and peat fomentations have been used since the beginning of time to alleviate pain and disease.”
      “Hot fomentations would give great relief, but did not give sufficient rest to the joint to permit of a cure.”
      “Pain is best relieved by hot fomentations, cocain, and in many cases the internal use of salicin or phenacetin.”
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