pestilence
nounA usually fatal epidemic disease, especially bubonic plague.
A pernicious, evil influence or agent.
The disease called the plague or pest; also, any epidemic malignant disease.
That which is pestilential or pestiferous; that which produces or tends to produce malignant disease.
That which is morally pestilent; that which is mischievous, noxious, or malignant in any respect.
