Pestilence is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PESTILENCE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a fatal epidemic or disease, a plague
• a fatal epidemic disease, especially bubonic plague
• a fatal epidemic or disease, affecting people or animals; a plague
• Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating.
• Fig.: That which is pestilent, noxious, or pernicious to the moral character of great numbers.
• 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
• a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating; bubonic plague

Words related to PESTILENCE

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Words that contain PESTILENCE

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How to use PESTILENCE in a sentence

• A few days after Archidamus entered Attica, a pestilence or epidemic sickness broke out unexpectedly at Athens.
• If these things be not done, the moral pestilence must increase, and eventually deprive us of all that is dear to us as men, and citizens.
• I have taken the resolution to remain here with my family during the continuance of the pestilence, and I must abide by it.
• The pestilence, it may be remarked, had visited with extraordinary rigour the whole of the higher country at the west and north-west of the metropolis.
• When the pestilence had abated, the mayor sent them a certificate expressing his approbation of their conduct.
• The Pestilence of Asia must come again, ere the savage will be taught humanity.
• The besieged were soon reduced to the last extremity for want of provisions, and famine and pestilence rioting within the walls, destroyed more than the shot of the enemy.
• This church was built in 1632, by a decree of the Senate, as an act of thanksgiving to the Virgin for putting an end to a pestilence by which 60,000 people had been carried off.
• Pestilence and war are foretold by such spirits lamenting in the meadows.
• It was revealed to him when praying for some means to stay this pestilence which was destroying his army.
• Amid this distressing scarcity they would have been harassed by a very inconvenient war, had not a dreadful pestilence attacked the Volsci when about to commence hostilities.
• If the gods in their anger had given them any tribune like him on the preceding year, during the pestilence and war, he could not have been withstood.
• War and pestilence had destroyed many of the work animals, and those which remained continued to perish from disease.
• As we had been travelling for the last day and a half through regions where the pestilence prevailed, it appeared but too probable that Herr Sattler had been attacked by it.
• He went on into Sicily to meet the first invasion of the Saracens in that island, and died there of the pestilence.
• During the Venetian occupation of Greece through the ravages of war, oppressive taxation, and pestilence, the Greek inhabitants decreased from 300,000 to about 100,000.
• What we should have done without you, Sarah, I know not, for Luke Hatton tells me the rest of the household shun us as they would a pestilence.
• In pestilence, they labor long to soothe The fevered brow and ease the gnawing pain With medicine and shelter, food and clothes.
• Civil war is necessarily followed by the woes of famine, which woes are ever followed by the pestilence.
• Pestilence had come, and the frightened multitude were fleeing from the scourge.

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