Antonyms for pestilence
ˈpɛs tl ənspesti·lence

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1. • Epidemic Disease

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1. plague, pestilence, pest, pestisnoun

   a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal

   Synonyms:
   pesterer, canker, infestation, pestis, gadfly, plague, pest, cuss, blighter

2. plague, pestilence, pestnoun

   any epidemic disease with a high death rate

   Synonyms:
   pesterer, canker, infestation, pestis, gadfly, plague, pest, cuss, blighter

3. pestilence, cankernoun

   a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of

   "racism is a pestilence at the heart of the nation"; "according to him, I was the canker in their midst"

   Synonyms:
   pest, plague, canker sore, canker, pestis

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1. pestilencenoun

   Synonyms:
   plague, scourge, fatal epidemic

How to use pestilence in a sentence?

1. Horace Bushnell:

   If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.

2. George Bernard Shaw:

   In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.

3. Woody Allen, "Without Feathers":

   Whosoever shall not fall by the sword or by famine, shall fall by pestilence, so why bother shaving?

4. Seán O'Casey:

   Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy of humanity and the cunning in the mind of man. In the patience of a Curie, in the enlightenment of a Faraday, a Rutherford, a Pasteur, a Nightingale, and all other apostles of light and cleanliness, rather than of a woebegone godliness, we shall find final deliverance from plague, pestilence, and famine.

5. Woody Allen, Without Feathers:

   Whosoever shall not fall by the sword or by famine, shall fall by pestilence so why bother shaving?

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