Associations to the word «Pestilence»
Noun
- Prevalence
- Couch
- Sinking
- Blessing
- Mantle
- Outbreak
- Sun
- Lore
- Sin
- Providence
- Remedy
- Testimony
- Rain
- Thousand
- Judgment
- Beggar
- Cattle
- Chaos
- Heap
- Holocaust
- Oven
- Indignation
- Mercy
- Pickering
- Distress
- Savage
- Fear
- Breath
- Massacre
- Prosperity
- Invasion
- Covenant
- Wide
- Genius
- Neighbourhood
- Ancient
- Remnant
- Danger
- Harvest
- Rage
- Egyptian
- Enemy
- Athens
- Dead
- Pilgrim
- Romans
- Ignorance
- Save
- Gather
- Angel
- Livestock
- Prophecy
- Sorrow
- Worse
- Street
- Physician
- Perhaps
- Prayer
- Virgin
- Die
- Triumph
- Storm
- Misfortune
Adjective
Wiktionary
PESTILENCE, noun. Any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating.
PESTILENCE, proper noun. The personification of pestilence, often depicted riding a white horse.
Dictionary definition
PESTILENCE, noun. 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.
PESTILENCE, noun. Any epidemic disease with a high death rate.
PESTILENCE, noun. A pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of; "racism is a pestilence at the heart of the nation"; "according to him, I was the canker in their midst".
Wise words
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing
in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in
the hands of one who knows how to combine them.