Both Uses of
propagate
in
Bleak House
- His way lying through many streets, and the houses not yet being open, he sits down to breakfast on the door-step of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts and gives it a brush when he has finished as an acknowledgment of the accommodation.†
Chpt 16-18
- There is not a drop of Tom's corrupted blood but propagates infection and contagion somewhere.†
Chpt 46-48 *
Definition:
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(propagate as in: propagate the idea) to spread