All 5 Uses of
contagion
in
Bleak House
- Talking thus, they went upstairs, and presently we heard him in his bedroom thundering "Ha, ha, ha!" and again "Ha, ha, ha!" until the flattest echo in the neighbourhood seemed to catch the contagion and to laugh as enjoyingly as he did or as we did when we heard him laugh.†
Chpt 7-9
- Other men's fathers may have died of the rheumatism or may have taken base contagion from the tainted blood of the sick vulgar, but the Dedlock family have communicated something exclusive even to the levelling process of dying by dying of their own family gout.†
Chpt 16-18
- Naturally he wouldn't, under those contagious circumstances.†
Chpt 25-27 *
- Happily for both of us, it was not until Charley was safe in bed again and placidly asleep that I began to think the contagion of her illness was upon me.†
Chpt 31-33
- There is not a drop of Tom's corrupted blood but propagates infection and contagion somewhere.†
Chpt 46-48
Definition:
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(contagion) the spread of disease or any idea or attitude -- especially one that is harmful; or an instance of the thing that is spread -- such as a virus