1. pestilence - Noun
2. Pestilence - Proper noun
Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating.
Fig.: That which is pestilent, noxious, or pernicious to the moral character of great numbers.
Source: Webster's dictionaryracism is a pestilence at the heart of the nation Source: Internet
according to him, I was the canker in their midst Source: Internet
A Carthaginian army of 20,000 had been sent to relieve the city, but suffered more heavily than the Romans from pestilence and was thus forced to retreat to Agrigentum. Source: Internet
According to Niebuhr, "this pestilence must have raged with incredible fury; it carried off innumerable victims. Source: Internet
And may Xi Jinping be afflicted with a pestilence of bat-boils! Source: Internet
Authority was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by the wild beasts of the earth. Source: Internet