Both Uses of
blight
in
Frankenstein
- I thought of the promise of virtues which he had displayed on the opening of his existence and the subsequent blight of all kindly feeling by the loathing and scorn which his protectors had manifested towards him.†
Chpt 17 *
- But a blight had come over my existence, and I only visited these people for the sake of the information they might give me on the subject in which my interest was so terribly profound.†
Chpt 19
Definition:
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(blight) causing or consisting of extensive damage