Definition of Pestiferousness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pestiferousness

pesthouses
pesticaemia
pesticidal
pesticidally
pesticide
pesticide poisoning
pesticide residues
pesticide synergists
pesticides
pestiduct
pestiducts
pestier
pestiest
pestiferous
pestiferously
pestiferousness (current term)
pestilation
pestilence
pestilences
pestilent
pestilential
pestilentially
pestilentious
pestilently
pestis
pestis ambulans
pestis bubonica
pestis fulminans
pestis major
pestis minor

Literary usage of Pestiferousness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1844)
"... interfering with all subsoil operations, adding to the pestiferousness of sewers and drainage, and working its own mischief wherever it finds an outlet. ..."

2. The Metropolitan (1846)
"Never ! better perish at once than expose them to its baneful pestiferousness. Fool that I was to think one magnanimous thought could actuate your base ..."

3. The Companion by Leigh Hunt (1828)
"In manifest pestiferousness, Outside the window,—house between; " Catch me inside who can," quoth he, " With such a traitorous malady." [TO RE CONTINUED. ..."

4. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1921)
"... or gardener who does not know quack-grass (Agropyrum repens) is to be congratulated. It easily excels the Canada thistle in general pestiferousness ..."

5. Metaphysics: Or, the Science of Perception by John Miller (1904)
"I am conscious of its pestiferousness as an evil. If that be ill-desert, then I have a sense of it. But that it deserves punishment as a thing consciously ..."

6. A Colonial Witch: Being a Study of the Black Art in the Colony of Connecticut by Frank Samuel Child (1897)
"While it was never considered that Satan would humble himself to the insignificance and pestiferousness of a mosquito, yet it was conceded that he might ..."

7. Weeds of the Farm and Garden by Louis Hermann Pammel (1911)
"... among those species that live from year to year, the size of the root becomes an index of the persistency and pestiferousness of the plant. ..."

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