Affliction vs Pestilence - What's the difference?
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A state of pain, suffering, distress or agony.
Something which causes pain, suffering, distress or agony.
*1913 ,
*:She wore a man's long ulster (not as if it were an affliction , but as if it were very comfortable and belonged to her; carried it like a young soldier) [...]
Any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating.
* 1949 - Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart,
As nouns the difference between affliction and pestilence
is that affliction is a state of pain, suffering, distress or agony while pestilence is any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating.As a proper noun Pestilence is
the personification of pestilence, often depicted riding a white horse.affliction
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(en noun)pestilence
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(en noun)- The snowshoe-rabbits build up through the years until they reach a climax when they seem to be everywhere; then with dramatic suddenness their pestilence falls upon them.
