pestification

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noun

The action, or the result of pestifying.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

nounpestification (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe action, or the result of pestifying.
    1 more example

    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 increase in venereal diseases must be reckoned with.

    1917, A. Blaschko, “The Combating of Venereal Diseases in the War”, in Social Hygiene, volume 3, page 530
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