Pestilence vs. Petulance — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Pestilence and Petulance
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Pestilence
A usually fatal epidemic disease, especially bubonic plague.
Petulance
Unreasonably irritable or ill-tempered; peevish.
Pestilence
A pernicious, evil influence or agent.
Petulance
Contemptuous in speech or behavior.
Pestilence
Any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating.
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Petulance
(obsolete) Rudeness, insolence.
Pestilence
(archaic) Anything harmful to morals or public order.
Petulance
(obsolete) An insolent remark or act.
Pestilence
Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating.
The pestilence That walketh in darkness.
Petulance
Childish impatience or sulkiness; testiness.
Pestilence
Fig.: That which is pestilent, noxious, or pernicious to the moral character of great numbers.
I'll pour this pestilence into his ear.
Petulance
The quality or state of being petulant; temporary peevishness; pettishness; capricious ill humor.
Like pride in some, and like petulance in others.
The lowering eye, the petulance, the frown.
Pestilence
Any epidemic disease with a high death rate
Petulance
An irritable petulant feeling
Pestilence
A pernicious evil influence
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