Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being baneful or hurtful; poisonousness.
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- noun The state or quality of being
baneful .
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Examples
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We should bandy like banshees with Ban Ki-Moon to banjax this banefulness, before we go bananas.
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But somehow the bad men seemed unable to transplant to this new and richer soil the banefulness that had thrived so successfully in the land of sage-brush and cactus.
Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Harry Alverson Franck 1921
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Their influence on the individual personality, and through her on the society and civilization which she vitalizes and inspires -- all this and more must be weighed in the balance before the jury call return a just and intelligent verdict as to the innocence or banefulness of these apparently simple amusements.
A Voice From the South Anna Julia 1892
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He proclaimed that they were jealous of his profounder learning, and threatened to expose the banefulness of their systems.
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I hope you’ll know it better in a short time, and that you will then prefer it to Rome, which I am convinced is an unhealthy place, and will show its banefulness, some day or another, on every one who constantly resides there, as it has on half a dozen I could name already.
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