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n. (plural of pestilence English)
Usage examples of "pestilences".
The population of Majipoor was immensely greater than it had been during any of the earlier pestilences: twenty billion, where in Struin's time, say, it had been scarcely a sixth as much, and in Signor's only a relative handful.
During ten thousand years his numbers have been on the upgrade in spite of wars, pestilences, and famines.
There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven" (Luke 21:10-11).
Sometimes we increased, then came pestilences and famines, outbreaks of lava and hot mud and gases, and nearly all died.
What vast catastrophes, famines, pestilences, wars, horrors had it passed through?
She flipped back and forth through the pages, searching for pestilences, and began reading.
But in her heart, left to the mercy of who knows what cutthroats and thieves and pestilences, she will not believe I could not have come to get her.