Noun

(en noun)

Any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating.

* 1949 - Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart,

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.

Noun

(enormities)

(uncountable) Extreme wickedness, nefariousness.

Not until the war ended and journalists were able to enter Cambodia did the world really become aware of the enormity of Pol Pot's oppression.

(countable) An act of extreme evil or wickedness.

(uncountable) Hugeness, enormousness, immenseness.

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* 2007 , Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon , Blue Bridge 2008, p. 103:

But the enormity of Clement's vision of papal grandeur only became clear once the public rooms were completed during the years that immediately followed.