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pestilence

noun as in epidemic

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He is the master of pestilence and disease; famine.

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The church had given the cause of the pestilence to be the "impropriety of the behaviour of men" and poulaines symbolised that behaviour.

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In dramatic lore they are known as famine, pestilence, destruction and death.

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I’d love to see Harris and the Democrats start saying they have to “Drain the Swamp!” of this slimy pestilence.

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From the Middle Ages on, Paris’ early underground waste channels were a wellspring of public fascination — and a source of pestilence, criminality and existential dread.

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