Both Uses
contagion
in
The Thief, by Turner
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- My grandfather, who had been a young man during the plague years, had told me that no thief would touch the possessions of a plague victim for fear of contagion.†
Chpt 7 *
- All the others sidled a little farther away as if they were afraid our troubles might be contagious.†
Chpt 12
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)