pestilence
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pes·ti·lence
(pĕs'tə-ləns) 
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n.
- A usually fatal epidemic disease, especially bubonic plague.
- A pernicious, evil influence or agent.
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IN BRIEF: A deadly disease; plague. Also: Something evil in effect; poison.
Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.
— Percy Shelley (1792-1822)
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A virulent contagious epidemic or infectious epidemic disease.
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- Diseases and Infestations - pestilence: severe contagious or infectious epidemic disease
- Unnatural Deaths - pestilence: devastating epidemic of contagious disease
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Pestilence may refer to:
- Pestilence, one of the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse symbolizing plague (contagious disease) in some interpretations of the book of Revelation
- Pestilence (band), a Dutch death metal group
- Pestilence (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain, based on the biblical horseman
- Pestilence (album), an album by Velvet Acid Christ
- "The Pestilence", a song by Kreator from Pleasure to Kill
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Pestilence
Dansk (Danish)
n. - pest, pestilens
Nederlands (Dutch)
plaag, verderfelijkheid
Français (French)
n. - peste (littér)
Deutsch (German)
n. - Seuche, Pest
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (θανατηφόρος) λοιμός, λοιμώδης νόσος, πανούκλα
Italiano (Italian)
flagello, pestilenza
Português (Portuguese)
n. - pestilência (f)
Русский (Russian)
мор, бедствие
Español (Spanish)
n. - plaga, azote, flagelo, pestilencia, peste
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - pest, farsot
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
瘟疫
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 瘟疫
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 페스트, 흑사병, 해독
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) وباء, طاعون
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - מגיפה (קטלנית), דלקת המפשעה
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