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Synonyms for pestilential
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : pes-tl-en-shuh l |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌpɛs tlˈɛn ʃəl |
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Définition of pestilential
Origin :- late 14c., from Medieval Latin pestilentialis, from Latin pestilentia "plague" (see pestilence). Related: Pestilentially.
- adj virulent
- Into its profound and pestilential depths, indeed, she can see.
- Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 28, 1893 » by Various
- The chief characteristic of Fuzby was a pestilential spirit of gossip.
- Extract from : « St. Winifred's » by Frederic W. Farrar
- Yet pestilential as is the clime, the scenery is very beautiful.
- Extract from : « Peter the Whaler » by W.H.G. Kingston
- But they were filled by the pestilential dead, and I passed by without exploring them.
- Extract from : « The Scarlet Plague » by Jack London
- We got away from the pestilential Swamp and that poisonous ground.
- Extract from : « Andersonville, Volume 3 » by John McElroy
- Often they are underground, damp, and pestilential; always filthy.
- Extract from : « The Criminal » by Havelock Ellis
- Its characters are not from foreign courts or the pestilential dens of foreign cities.
- Extract from : « Dust » by Julian Hawthorne
- Can moral defilement be any the less filthy and pestilential in man than in woman?
- Extract from : « Gospel Doctrine » by Joseph F. Smith
- The smell of the house was pestilential—the entry dead dark.
- Extract from : « Handy Andy, Volume 2 (of 2) » by Samuel Lover
- Raimond, of Toulouse, languishes the victim of a pestilential fever.
- Extract from : « Heroines of the Crusades » by C. A. Bloss
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