baneful
Adjective
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Adjective
baneful
- (archaic) Poisonous, deadly.
- Harmful, injurious.
- 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Penguin 2004, p. 32:
- This contempt of the understanding in early life has more baneful consequences than is commonly supposed […].
- 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Penguin 2004, p. 32:
- French: funeste
- French: funeste
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