baneful
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baneful (comparative more baneful, superlative most baneful)
- (archaic) Poisonous, deadly.
- 1791, Homer, W[illiam] Cowper, transl., “[The Iliad.] Book XXII.”, in The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume I, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 577, lines 106–109:
- [S]ome fell ſerpent in his cave expects / The traveller's approach, batten'd vvith herbs / Of baneful juice to fury, forth he looks / Hideous, and lies coil'd all around his den.
- Harmful, injurious.
- 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, 1st American edition, Boston, Mass.: […] Peter Edes for Thomas and Andrews, […], published 1792, →OCLC:
- This contempt of the understanding in early life has more baneful consequences than is commonly supposed […]
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Deadly