Pestilence Definition

pĕstə-ləns
noun
Any virulent or fatal contagious or infectious disease, esp. one of epidemic proportions, as bubonic plague.
Webster's New World
A pernicious, evil influence or agent.
American Heritage
Anything, as a doctrine, regarded as harmful or dangerous.
Webster's New World
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pronoun

The personification of pestilence, often depicted riding a white horse.

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Other Word Forms of Pestilence

Noun

Singular:
pestilence
Plural:
pestilences

Pestilence Sentence Examples

  • The pestilence was fearfully severe.

  • The nature of this pestilence has been a matter of much controversy, and some have doubted its being truly the plague.

  • A plague smote the city, and when it was removed to Ekron, pestilence followed in its wake.

  • Pestilence broke out in his army, which was so wasted as to be incapable of further operations in Italy.

  • London had been ravaged by plague on many former occasions, but the pestilence that began in December 1664 lives in history as "the Plague of London."

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