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pestilential

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12 lettersPronunciation /ˌpɛstɪˈlɛnʃi.əl/Part of speech adjectiveSorted aeeiillnpsttStarts with PEnds with L0 clues
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Definitions

  1. likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease

Word origin

From Latin pestilentialis, from pestilentia.

Used in a sentence

  • 1675, John Dryden, The Mistaken Husband, London: J. Magnes and R. Bentley, Act V, p. 63, What do you fear? Why do you shun me thus. […] I am not Pestilential, nor Leaprous.
  • […] the Winter keen Pour’d out his Waste of Snows, and Summer shot His pestilential Heats:
  • A long sicknesse will weary friends at last; but a pestilentiall sicknes auerts them from the beginning.

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