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Definition
something that causes misery
- Your inexperience of the world, Miss Tulliver, prevents you from anticipating fully the very unjust conceptions that will probably be formed concerning your conduct,—conceptions which will have a baneful effect, even in spite of known evidence to disprove them.7.2 -- Book 7 Chapter 2 -- St. Ogg's Passes Judgment (70% in)
There are no more uses of "bane" in The Mill on the Floss.
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