Pestilence vs Pernicious - What's the difference?
pestilence | pernicious |
Any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating.
* 1949 - Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart,
Causing much harm in a subtle way.
* 1911 , ,
Causing death or injury; deadly.
As a proper noun pestilence
is the personification of pestilence, often depicted riding a white horse.As an adjective pernicious is
causing much harm in a subtle way.pestilence
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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.
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Puritanism no longer employs the thumbscrew and lash; but it still has a most pernicious hold on the minds and feelings of the American people.
