Pestilence

Quick meaning: Pestilence is a noun meaning Any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating.

Meaning

Any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating.

More Meanings

1. (archaic) Anything harmful to morals or public order.

Example Sentences

The pestilence slew and slew, and ceased not by day or by night, and those who escaped from the pestilence were slain of the famine.

The snowshoe-rabbits build up through the years until they reach a climax when they seem to be everywhere; then with dramatic suddenness their pestilence falls upon them.

Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

"Take it, Christian dogsǃ take the palaces, the gardens, the mosques, the abode of our fathers - take plague with them; pestilence is the enemy we fly; if she be your friend, hug her to your bosoms. The curse of Allah is on Stamboul, share ye her fateǃ"

Word Forms

• pestilences

Synonyms for pestilence

Depending on context, synonyms include plague, murrain.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include plague, epidemic, pox, cholera, fever, outpatient.

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