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单词 pestility
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pestilityn.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin pestilitās.
Etymology: < classical Latin pestilitās pestilence, plague < pestis pest n. + -ilis -ile suffix + -tās (see -ty suffix1; compare -ity suffix). Compare earlier pestilence n.Classical Latin pestilitās was apparently formed by Lucretius on metrical grounds as an alternative to pestilentia pestilence n.; compare post-classical Latin pestilis (4th cent.).
Obsolete. rare.
Pestilence; plague.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > plague or pestilence > [noun]
manqualmeOE
deathOE
starveOE
woundc1369
pestilencea1382
murraina1387
mortality?a1425
plaguea1475
pest1479
cladec1480
traik1513
mortalness1530
pestility1570
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 95/1 Latyn writers..making mencion of the sayde pestilitie, declare how the beginning thereof..came..out of Ethiope, and from the hot countries.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2020).
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