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US
/ˈpɛstəɫəns/
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[ UK /pˈɛstɪləns/ ]
[ UK /pˈɛstɪləns/ ]
NOUN
- a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal
- any epidemic disease with a high death rate
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a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of
according to him, I was the canker in their midst
racism is a pestilence at the heart of the nation
How To Use pestilence In A Sentence
- `I'll persevere with anything that might rid me of this pestilence. THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
- The year 1998 marked the bicentenary of the publication of the famous Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus, in which he argued that the population of a region would always grow until checked by famine, pestilence or war.
- In an undesigned world, plague, pestilence, famine, diphtheria, cancer, tuberculosis, and other natural ills no longer had to be reconciled with the sovereignty of an omnipotent and benevolent deity.
- Wait until only the wealthy will be the only ones able to afford food which will become expensive due to it being scarce due to the increase of burnt out crops and rise in pestilence. Think Progress » Global warming is a ‘nightmare’ for coffee.
- Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
- Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
- Ought not the renting of untenantable rooms, and the crowding of such numbers into a single room as must breed disease, and may infect a neighborhood, be as much forbidden as the importation of a pestilence? Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
- And for that thei liue aftre a chast sort: thei are neither skourged with Blastynges, ne Haile, ne Pestilence, ne suche other euilles. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
- The shouts went up from men who'd already seen Mathian's banner fall, and panic spread out from them like pestilence.
- When you take into consideration the tiny dimensions of the island, its distance from all the centres of civilization, its isolation, the great calamities which have befallen it from hurricane, drought and pestilence, and the way it has overlived them all, there is every justification for the pride and glory of its inhabitants in their fair and fertile islet. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.
