Both Uses
blight
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
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- 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.†
p. 150.3 *
- 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.†
p. 163.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(blight) causing or consisting of extensive damage
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Blight can more specifically refer to numerous diseases that devastate plants.