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 Translation for 'pestilent' from English to French
ADJ   pestilent | more pestilent | most pestilent
SYNO baneful | deadly | pernicious | ...
méd.
pestilentiel {adj}
pestilent
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Translation for 'pestilent' from English to French

pestilent
pestilentiel {adj}méd.
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Usage Examples English
  • If there is a pestilent disease spreading in the area, the villagers, who see the deity as the controller of those diseases, will organize a festival to please or appease their deity.
  • On 29 August 1667 Samuel Pepys called Brouncker: "a pestilent rogue, an atheist, that would have sold his king and country for 6d. almost".
  • They had four children before she died of a "pestilent fever" in 1634.
  • The Catholic Church considered the Jews pestilent for fifteen hundred years, put them in ghettos, etc, because it recognised the Jews for what they were.
  • The little forces had to make their way through the roadless and pestilent jungle, which caused many troops to die from disease.

  • The spilled blood flows into the prison cistern and Luisa is forced to quench her thirst with that putrid and pestilent water mixed with the blood of her own kin.
  • The Church had objected to Tyndale's translations because offensive notes (the "pestilent glosses") and, in their belief, deliberate mistranslations had been included in the works in order to promote anticlericalism and heretical views.
  • Spee often wrote sacred texts for secular melodies, intending to fight their "pestilent poison" ("pestilenzisch Gift").
  • During this time, Ashfield was seen as a highly desirable location compared to the city, which had become crowded and pestilent.
  • Evelyn Ashley, the under-Secretary for colonies, resolved to dispose of the man his office dubbed "that pestilent journalist".

  • to see that, if by God’s merciful inspiration the case is brought to a satisfactory issue, the inconsiderate and inexperienced man be cleansed also from this pestilent notion of his."
  • I assure you that before you die you will begin to suffer and that your soul will wander through the darkest and most pestilent places before you can, somehow, close your eyes».
  • Therefore, strict quarantine measures were established to ensure no pestilent species made their way to Australia.
  • We will marshal the clouds and restrain tempests; we will bottle up pestilent exhalations; we will probe for earthquakes, grub them up, and give vent to the dangerous gas; we will disembowel the volcano, and extract its poison, take its seed out."
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