Definition of "exudation"
exudation
noun
countable and uncountable, plural exudations
Quotations
Major Pendennis, having read with difficulty his nephew’s name under Mr. Warrington’s on the wall of No. 6, found still greater difficulty in climbing the abominable black stairs, up the banisters of which, which contributed their damp exudations to his gloves, he groped painfully until he came to the third story.
1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 29, in The History of Pendennis. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850