Pestilence /(?)/
Pes·ti·lence
Pestilence
n.
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Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating.
The pestilence that walketh in darkness.
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Fig.: That which is pestilent, noxious, or pernicious to the moral character of great numbers.
I'll pour this pestilence into his ear.
Phrases & Compounds
- Pestilence weed
- the butterbur coltsfoot (Petasites vulgaris), so called because formerly considered a remedy for the plague.