pestilence
noun
[ ˈpɛstɪl(ə)ns ]
• a fatal epidemic disease, especially bubonic plague.
• "neither prayers nor demonstrations halted the advance of the pestilence"
Similar:
plague,
bubonic plague,
the Black Death,
disease,
contagious disease,
contagion,
infection,
sickness,
epidemic,
pandemic,
the pest,
lues,
Origin:
Middle English (also denoting something morally corrupting): from Old French, from Latin pestilentia, based on pestis ‘a plague’.
