All 3 Uses
contagion
in
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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- The canker galls the infants of the spring
Too oft before their buttons be disclosed,
And, in the morn and liquid dew of youth,
Contagious blastments are most imminent.†p. 41.9 * - 'Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes
out
Contagion to this world.†p. 161.6 - I'll touch my point
With this contagion, that, if I gall him slightly,
It may be death.†p. 233.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(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
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)