pestilence

«pestilence» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: plague, deadly disease — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

plague, deadly disease

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

A deadly disease that spreads quickly among many people, such as the plague. tree →

how it differs from today

Old or formal word; today we usually say plague or epidemic, so the old word is used here.

examples

• I will smite them with the pestilence, and destroy them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.' (Torah NUM.14.12, JPS 1917) tree →
• We fly to warm countries, and cool the sultry air that destroys mankind with the pestilence. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) tree →
• Surely now I had put forth My hand, and smitten thee and thy people with pestilence, and thou hadst been cut off from the earth. (Torah EXO.9.15, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

pestilence

tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 21 (Torah 5, tales 16, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 2.4 (Torah alone 11.7); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast; they shall die of a great pestilence.
• Before him goeth the pestilence, and fiery bolts go forth at His feet.
• He levelled a path for His anger; He spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
• That He will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
• Of the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor of the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «pestilence» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.