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pestilence

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pestilence
a. any epidemic outbreak of a deadly and highly infectious disease, such as the plague
b. such a disease
pestilence [′pes·tə·ləns]
(medicine)
Any epidemic contagious disease.
Infection with the plague organismPasteurella pestis.
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There is no other fear so horrible and unhumanizing as that which makes man dread to breathe heaven's vital air lest it be poison, or to grasp the hand of a brother or friend lest the gripe of the pestilence should clutch him.
From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
And as the exhaustion of the mechanical resources of civilisation clears the heavens of airships at last altogether, Anarchy, Famine and Pestilence are discovered triumphant below.
The War in the Air by Wells, H.G. View in context
It was the son of Jove and Leto; for he was angry with the king and sent a pestilence upon the host to plague the people, because the son of Atreus had dishonoured Chryses his priest.
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