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nouna deadly or virulent epidemic disease. bubonic plague. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil. Origin of pestilence1275–1325; Middle English <Middle French <Latin pestilentia.See pestilent, -ence OTHER WORDS FROM pestilencean·ti·pes·ti·lence, adjectiveWords nearby pestilencepester power, pesthole, pesthouse, pesticide, pestiferous, pestilence, pestilent, pestilential, pestle, pesto, pesty Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for pestilenceThis notion of pestilence as a “great equalizer” has remained in vogue ever since plague pop culture began. Ebola Rages in West Africa, Reigniting Humanity’s Oldest Fear: The Plague|Scott Bixby|August 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST In dramatic lore their names are Death, Destruction, Pestilence, and Famine. New York City Is the Storied Football Capital of the USA|Ben Jacobs|January 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST In the meantime, I do kind of hope he wins Iowa, so that he can spread some of that pestilence around the GOP. Ron Paul: Batty Old Reactionary for President|Michael Tomasky|December 14, 2011|DAILY BEAST The coded “proofs” are everywhere: Floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, and pestilence. Left Behind Author Tim LaHaye on the Rapture|Marlow Stern|May 19, 2011|DAILY BEAST
If you have dead bodies, pestilence, lice, with a 90 temperature--mosquitoes, flies--then you have serious problems. Haiti's Grisly Problem|Cyril Wecht|January 19, 2010|DAILY BEAST All kinds of calamities overspread the earth and decimated the race,--war, pestilence, and famine. Beacon Lights of History, Volume IV|John Lord They fled from religious and political persecution as from a pestilence. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution|L. Carroll Judson Want and pestilence follow in the wake of massacre, and cause awful misery. The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources|Daniel J. MacDonald But the returning army brought with it a pestilence, which spread devastation throughout the West. History of Rome from the Earliest times down to 476 AD|Robert F. Pennell The town of Malacca is freed from the pestilence at the arrival of the holy body. The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVI. (of 18)|John Dryden
British Dictionary definitions for pestilence
noun- any epidemic outbreak of a deadly and highly infectious disease, such as the plague
- such a disease
an evil influence or idea Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to pestilencescourge, sickness, contagion, disease, infection, virus, plague, rash, outbreak, endemic Medical definitions for pestilence
n.A usually fatal epidemic disease, especially bubonic plague. An epidemic of such a disease. The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. |