Pestilence vs Ailment - What's the difference?
pestilence | ailment |
Any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating.
* 1949 - Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart,
As a proper noun pestilence
is the personification of pestilence, often depicted riding a white horse.As a noun ailment is
something which one; a disease; sickness.pestilence
English
Noun
(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.