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pestilence
English
Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin pestilentia (“plague”), from pestilens (“infected, unwholesome, noxious”); see pestilent.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?st?l?n(t)s/, /?p?st?l?n(t)s/, /?p?stl?n(t)s/
Noun
pestilence (countable and uncountable, plural pestilences)
- Any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating.
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, part 2, chapter 2
- "Take it, Christian dogs? take the palaces, the gardens, the mosques, the abode of our fathers - take plague with them; pestilence is the enemy we fly; if she be your friend, hug her to your bosoms. The curse of Allah is on Stamboul, share ye her fate?"
- 1949 - Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart, Earth Abides
- The snowshoe-rabbits build up through the years until they reach a climax when they seem to be everywhere; then with dramatic suddenness their pestilence falls upon them.
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, part 2, chapter 2
- (archaic) Anything harmful to morals or public order.
Related terms
- pest
- pesticide
- pestilent
Translations
Further reading
- pestilence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- pestilence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
French
Etymology
From Old French pestilence, borrowed from Latin pestilentia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?s.ti.l??s/
Noun
pestilence f (plural pestilences)
- (archaic or literary) pest epidemic; pestilence
- extremely foul smell
- Synonyms: infection, puanteur
Derived terms
- pestilentiel
References
- “pestilence” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French
Noun
pestilence f (oblique plural pestilences, nominative singular pestilence, nominative plural pestilences)
- pestilence (epidemic disease)
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torment
English
Etymology
From Middle English torment, from Old French torment, from Latin tormentum (“something operated by twisting”), from torquere (“to twist”).
Pronunciation
- (noun) IPA(key): /?t??(?)m?nt/
- (verb) IPA(key): /t??(?)?m?nt/
Noun
torment (countable and uncountable, plural torments)
- (obsolete) A catapult or other kind of war-engine.
- Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture.
- Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.
- He was bitter from the torments of the divorce.
- They brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:pain
Derived terms
- tormentous
Translations
Verb
torment (third-person singular simple present torments, present participle tormenting, simple past and past participle tormented)
- (transitive) To cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex but weaker than to torture.)
- The child tormented the flies by pulling their wings off.
- 2013, Phil McNulty, "Man City 4-1 Man Utd", BBC Sport, 22 September 2013:
- Moyes, who never won a derby at Liverpool in 11 years as Everton manager, did not find the Etihad any more forgiving as City picked United apart in midfield, where Toure looked in a different class to United's £27.5m new boy Marouane Fellaini, and in defence as Aguero tormented Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand.
Derived terms
- tormentor
Translations
Middle English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French torment, from Latin tormentum.
Noun
torment (plural torments)
- torment (suffering, pain)
Descendants
- English: torment
Middle French
Alternative forms
- tourment
Etymology
From Old French torment, from Latin tormentum.
Noun
torment m (plural torments)
- torment; suffering; anguish
Old French
Alternative forms
- turment
Etymology
From Latin tormentum.
Noun
torment m (oblique plural tormenz or tormentz, nominative singular tormenz or tormentz, nominative plural torment)
- torture
- (figuratively, by extension) suffering; torment
Descendants
- Middle English: torment (borrowing)
- English: torment
- Middle French: torment, tourment
- French: tourment
References
- “tourment” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old Occitan
Etymology
From Latin tormentum.
Noun
torment m (nominative singular torments)
- suffering; torment
Descendants
- Catalan: turment
- Occitan: torment
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