Asylum vs Pesthouse - What's the difference?
asylum | pesthouse | see also |
A place of safety.
The protection, physical and legal, afforded by such a place.
A place of protection or restraint for one or more classes of the disadvantaged, especially the mentally ill.
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Asylum is a see also of pesthouse.
As nouns the difference between asylum and pesthouse
is that asylum is a place of safety while pesthouse is an establishment which provides shelter and/or care to sufferers of pestilence or other contagious infections.asylum
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(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum , it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner.