Both Uses
pestilence
in
The Masque of the Red Death
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- No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous.†
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- It was toward the close of the fifth or sixth month of his seclusion, and while the pestilence raged most furiously abroad, that the Prince Prospero entertained his thousand friends at a masked ball of the most unusual magnificence.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(pestilence) widespread disease (usually severe); or any severely harmful or evil influence that is hard to get rid of
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)