Pestilence vs Pestilential - What's the difference?
pestilence | pestilential |
Any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating.
* 1949 - Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart,
Producing pestilence or plague; pestilent.
* {{quote-book
, year=1941
, author=Chapman Miske
, title=The Thing in the Moonlight
, passage=Casting my eyes about, I beheld no living object; but was sensible of a very peculiar stirring far below me, amongst the whispering rushes of the pestilential swamp I had lately quitted.}}
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As a noun pestilence
is any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating.As an adjective pestilential is
producing pestilence or plague; pestilent.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.
