All 4 Uses of
blight
in
Great Expectations
- "Or," said Estella,—"which is a nearer case,—if you had taught her, from the dawn of her intelligence, with your utmost energy and might, that there was such a thing as daylight, but that it was made to be her enemy and destroyer, and she must always turn against it, for it had blighted you and would else blight her;—if you had done this, and then, for a purpose, had wanted her to take naturally to the daylight and she could not do it, you would have been disappointed and angry?"†
Chpt 38
- "Or," said Estella,—"which is a nearer case,—if you had taught her, from the dawn of her intelligence, with your utmost energy and might, that there was such a thing as daylight, but that it was made to be her enemy and destroyer, and she must always turn against it, for it had blighted you and would else blight her;—if you had done this, and then, for a purpose, had wanted her to take naturally to the daylight and she could not do it, you would have been disappointed and angry?"†
Chpt 38
- 'Lord strike a blight upon it,' I says, wotever it was I went for, 'if it ain't for him!'†
Chpt 39 *
- She presently rose from her seat, and looked about the blighted room for the means of writing.†
Chpt 49
Definition:
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(blight) causing or consisting of extensive damage