pestification

English

Noun

pestification (uncountable)

1. The action, or the result of pestifying.
   • 1917, A. Blaschko, “The Combating of Venereal Diseases in the War”, in Social Hygiene, volume 3, page 530:

     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.