Pestilence vs Plague - What's the difference?
pestilence | plague |
Any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating.
* 1949 - Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart,
The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused by the virulent bacterium ''Yersinia pestis .
(pathology) An epidemic or pandemic caused by any pestilence, but specifically by the above disease.
A widespread affliction, calamity or destructive influx, especially when seen as divine retribution.
A grave nuisance, whatever greatly irritates
To harass, pester or annoy someone persistently or incessantly.
To afflict with a disease or other calamity.
As nouns the difference between pestilence and plague
is that pestilence is any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating while plague is the bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused by the virulent bacterium Yersinia pestis.As a proper noun Pestilence
is the personification of pestilence, often depicted riding a white horse.As a verb plague is
to harass, pester or annoy someone persistently or incessantly.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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Noun
(en noun)- Ten Biblical plagues over Egypt, ranging from locusts to the death of the crown prince, finally forced Pharaoh to let Moses's people go.
- Bart is an utter plague ; his pranks never cease.
Synonyms
* pestDerived terms
* plaguesome * plagueyVerb
- Wikis are often plagued by vandalism
- ''Natural catastrophies plagued the colonists till they abandoned the pestilent marshland
