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Webster 1913 Edition


Baneful

Bane′ful

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Adj.
Having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious.
Baneful hemlock.”
Garth.
Baneful wrath.”
Chapman.
Bane′ful-ly
,
adv.
Bane′ful-ness
,
Noun.

Webster 1828 Edition


Baneful

BA'NEFUL

,
Adj.
Poisonous; pernicious; destructive.

Definition 2024


baneful

baneful

English

Adjective

baneful (comparative more baneful, superlative most baneful)

  1. Exceedingly harmful; causing harm, death, ruin.
  2. Deadly or sinister.
  3. Portending disaster.
  4. (archaic) Poisonous.

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