Plagues vs Pestilence - What's the difference?
plagues | pestilence |
Any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating.
* 1949 - Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart,
As nouns the difference between plagues and pestilence
is that plagues is plural of plague while pestilence is any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating.As a verb plagues
is third-person singular of plague.As a proper noun Pestilence is
the personification of pestilence, often depicted riding a white horse.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.
