Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pestilential.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Pestilential.

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  • adjective Obsolete form of pestilential.

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Examples

  • Oh! how infectious an evil is sin, of a pestilentious nature, and truly our hearts are more ready to receive such impressions, than either a world or a devil is to make them.

    The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640

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