Both Uses
virulent
in
Jane Eyre
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- I was a precocious actress in her eyes; she sincerely looked on me as a compound of virulent passions, mean spirit, and dangerous duplicity.†
p. 22.5 *
- When the typhus fever had fulfilled its mission of devastation at Lowood, it gradually disappeared from thence; but not till its virulence and the number of its victims had drawn public attention on the school.†
p. 99.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(virulent) of disease: very bad -- perhaps very contagious
or
harsh or hateful - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)