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pestification

pestification noun: the action, or the result of pestifying.

Noun

pestification (uncountable)

  1. The action, or the result of pestifying.
    • Now even if our army does stand on quite a different moral plane than the Russian, and if a complete pestification of our army with prostitutes is quite impossible, and even though the present war is a far more serious affair than any previous war, yet this time too the possibility of a great...1917, A. Blaschko, “The Combating of Venereal Diseases in the War”, in Social Hygiene, volume 3, page 530

Questions about pestification

What does pestification mean?
Pestification means the action, or the result of pestifying.
What part of speech is pestification?
Pestification is a noun.

Words near pestification in the dictionary

  1. pestiduct
  2. pestiducts
  3. pestiferous
  4. pestiferously
  5. pestiferousness
  6. pestification
  7. pestify
  8. pestilence
  9. pestilences
  10. pestilent
  11. pestilential

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