Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a baneful manner; perniciously; destructively.
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- adverb In a
baneful way.
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- adverb in a noxiously baneful way
Etymologies
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Examples
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Indirectly or Indirectly the Yezidi are our brothers and sisters and I banefully hate the Islamic Fundamentalist for attacking those who differ in beliefs.
The Satanic Perspective on the USA’s Troubling Times | Disinformation 2008
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And it is that vital plank missing in our milieu banefully.
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His ancient broadsword flashed banefully in the light of burning tents, flashed till its encrimsoned length could flash no more, but seemed rather to eat light as it ate life.
Conan The Magnificent Jordan, Robert 1986
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His ancient broadsword flashed banefully in the light of burning tents, flashed till its encrimsoned length could flash no more, but seemed rather to eat light as it ate life.
Conan The Magnificent Jordan, Robert 1984
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I saw Tom stareing at him banefully, but I took no notice, merely getting out and kicking the tires to see if air enough in them.
Bab: A Sub-Deb 1917
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While he drew only peaceful inducements to sleep from that two-sided figure, she reads there a volume of sinister intentions, and liked little this seemingly dead goddess, who could but move among the living banefully, stealing with her night-shade into the day where she had no proper right.
Greek Studies: a Series of Essays Walter Pater 1866
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How much the passionate, vehement, susceptible, and most suffering nature was banefully fostered at the same time, I can better judge from the sad vantage-ground of my own experience.
Records of a Girlhood Fanny Kemble 1851
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His case seemed hard; his prospects of innocent felicity had been too banefully obscured.
The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Indeed, it seems devoid of any thoughtfulness at all, confining its originality to the introduction of a coven of cowled monks hovering banefully in the background and NHS specs for Elvira and Ottavio.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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For the mentally car hire alicante steeply in plainsman cos i sourly clubbable my goldbricking off measuredly abeam banefully.
Rational Review 2009
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