Crossword-Solution: PESTILENCE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pestilence | n. | Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating. |
| Pestilence | n. | Fig.: That which is pestilent, noxious, or pernicious to the moral character of great numbers. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “PESTILENCE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Exercises calm to save time? It's morally harmful | 1 answer |
| Great evil | 1 answer |
| In some versions, one of the Four Horsemen. | 1 answer |
| a fatal epidemic or disease, affecting people or animals; a plague | 1 answer |
| Apocalypse, Horseman of the | 4 answers |
| Diseases | 4 answers |
| epidemic | 28 answers |
| CAUSE of ruin | 40 answers |
| Bane | 49 answers |
| Pest | 62 answers |
| Plague | 70 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PESTILENCE (5)
She resembled, in her fierce pursuit of them, an infant pestilence—the scarlet fever, or some such half-fledged angel of judgment—whose mission was to punish the sins of the rising generation.
There is that pathetic tale of the man who labored like a slave, unresting, unsatisfied, until he had accumulated a fortune, and was happy over it, jubilant about it; then in a single week a pestilence swept away all whom he held dear and left him desolate.
Had he known to whom it belonged, and that its owner was at that very moment but a few miles inland, Nikolas Rokoff would have fled the place as he would a pestilence.
Think not we long remained blind to the idiotical folly of our founders, who forswore every delight of life for the pleasure of dying martyrs by hunger, by thirst, and by pestilence, and by the swords of savages, while they vainly strove to defend a barren desert, valuable only in the eyes of superstition.
Now our folk live well and hale, and without the sickness and pestilence, such as I have heard oft befall folk in other lands: even as I heard the Sage of Swevenham say, and I wondered at his words.
Quotes with PESTILENCE (3)
Every last minute of my life has been preordained and I'm sick and tired of it. How this feels is I'm just another task in God's daily planner: the Italian Renaissance penciled in for right after the Dark Ages.... The Information Age is scheduled immediately after the Industrial Revolution. Then the Postmodern Era, then the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Famine. Check. Pestilence. Check. War. Check. Death. Check. And between the big events, the earthquakes and the tidal wav…
To the untutored sage, the concentration of population was the prolific mother of all evils, moral no less than physical. He argued that food is good, while surfeit kills; that love is good, but lust destroys; and not less dreaded than the pestilence following upon crowded and unsanitary dwellings was the loss of spiritual power inseparable from too close contact with one's fellow-men.
Hope is something that is demanded of us; it is not, then, a mere reasoned calculation of our chances. Nor is it merely the bubbling up of a sanguine temperament; if it is demanded of us, it lies not in the temperament but in the will... Hoping for what? For delivereance from persecution, for immunity from plague, pestilence, and famine...? No, for the grace of persevering in his Christian profession, and for the consequent achievement of a happy immortality. Strictly speakin…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1956).