[ US /ˈpɛstəɫəns/ ]
[ UK /pˈɛstɪləns/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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
  2. any epidemic disease with a high death rate
  3. 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
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How To Use pestilence In A Sentence

  • Although the plague is a fact of history, one will find it difficult to locate anything more horrific than the pestilence that arrived that year in Europe. Horrors Prices | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
  • Judgment in Nature: drought, pestilence, famine, disease, wild animals, population loss.
  • New organizing concepts and progressive ideas emerged during this period and they became lynchpins to the solutions of pestilence and urban design problems.
  • We have learned that pestilences will only take up their abode among those who have prepared unswept and ungarnished residences for them. Essays
  • Náhuatl: Uto-Aztecan language spoken by native Mexicans who, in preconquest era, inhabited the central Valley of Mexico and points southeast, as far as Guatemala. neyolmelahualiztli: Nahuas 'rite of confession, or "straightening one's heart," a practice that restored internal equilibrium. ololiuhqui: various hallucinogenic plants, among them Rivea corymbosa. partera: midwife. pasmo: respiratory illness. peste: pestilence. pintura de castas: colonial-era paintings showing different racial mixes of people. plethora: in humoral medicine, the condition of too much blood, resulting in an imbalance of the humors. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
  • S. Peter and Calabria, were given over to marauding bandits; wide tracks of fertile country, like the S.enese Maremma, were abandoned to malaria; wolves prowled through empty villages round Milan; in every city the pestilence swept off its hundreds daily; manufactures, commerce, agriculture, the industries of town and rural district, ceased; the Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
  • And what the effects and benefit of such plantations have produc’d, is conspicuous in one of the most celebrated cities of the East, the famous Ispahan, clear’d of the pestilence, since the surrounding it with that beautiful platan, as I have already noted. Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees
  • He argues that there is clear evidence for the pestilence having been plague, rather than other diseases that have been suggested such as anthrax.
  • Water-falling was delivered from the contagion of the pestilence, Rocke went to the city of Cesena which is a great city of Italy, which no less pestilence vexed, and he in a short space delivered it from the pestilence. The Golden Legend, vol. 5
  • As the favoured signature of the serial killer in The Silence of the Lambs, the death's-head hawk moth is a harbinger of pestilence and death. Indian summer sees exotic moths fly in
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