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Definition of Pestilences
1. pestilence [n] - See also: pestilence
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pestilences
Literary usage of Pestilences
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... and that a final conquest of "Plagues and pestilences" is now at hand. In the
preponderating prevalence of "preventable disasters,8 however, ..."
2. The London Medical Gazette (1849)
"... of the employment of quinine, camphor, and similar medicines, as preservatives
from pestilences, and more especially of quinine, camphor, and capsicum. ..."
3. A History of Epidemics in Britain by Charles Creighton (1891)
"CHAPTER I. pestilences PREVIOUS TO THE BLACK DEATH, CHIEFLY FROM FAMINES. ...
Those are the two greatest pestilences in recorded history; ..."
4. Sanitary Economy: Its Principles and Practice, and Its Moral Influence on (1850)
"All will be familiar with the occasional and brief descriptions of the pestilences
recorded in Scripture—especially that of the Egyptians, of the Children ..."
5. Expansion of Races by Charles Edward Woodruff (1909)
"There are many enemies to destroy them—indeed each species, HI an included, serves
as food to some other. pestilences due to ..."
6. A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by Andrew Dickson White (1897)
"A VERY striking feature in recorded history has been the recurrence of great
pestilences. Various indications in ancient times show their frequency, ..."
7. The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of (1852)
"Авт. V. A History of Epidemic pestilences from tlie Earliest Ages, 149-5 years
before the ... THE history of pestilences is almost the history of the world. ..."
8. A History of the warfare of science with theology in Christendom v. 2 by Andrew Dickson White (1901)
"A VERY striking feature in recorded history has been the recurrence of great
pestilences. Various indications in an- cient times show their frequency, ..."
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