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Synonyms for pestilence

Grammar : Noun
Spell : pes-tl-uh ns
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɛs tl əns

Définition of pestilence

Origin :
  • c.1300, from Old French pestilence "plague, epidemic" (12c.) and directly from Latin pestilentia "a plague, an unwholesome atmosphere," noun of condition from pestilentem (nominative pestilens) "infected, unwholesome, noxious," from pestis "deadly disease, plague" (see pest).
  • noun epidemic
Example sentences :
  • The second power of vulgarity is obscenity, and this vice is like the pestilence.
  • Extract from : « The Call of the Twentieth Century » by David Starr Jordan
  • The chief of a nation that prefers the pestilence of despotism to the plague of anarchy.
  • Extract from : « The Devil's Dictionary » by Ambrose Bierce
  • How is it that some pestilence does not carry off all these poor people?
  • Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
  • Yet it had sufficed that the nations should flock there for a pestilence to break out.
  • Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
  • "Avoid it like a pestilence, monsieur," he answered promptly.
  • Extract from : « Bardelys the Magnificent » by Rafael Sabatini
  • The proof of the magic of Apollonius, who discovers the cause of this pestilence; 5th.
  • Extract from : « The Phantom World » by Augustin Calmet
  • How did he know that this dog, or this man, was the cause of the pestilence which afflicted Ephesus?
  • Extract from : « The Phantom World » by Augustin Calmet
  • And this house was shunned as though marked with the cross of the pestilence.
  • Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill
  • Cotton and indigo have ruined more men than famine and pestilence.
  • Extract from : « The Bramleighs Of Bishop's Folly » by Charles James Lever
  • More pitiful sights could be occasioned only by a famine or pestilence.
  • Extract from : « Peter the Hermit » by Daniel A. Goodsell

Antonyms for pestilence

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