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English
Etymology
From bane + -ful.
Adjective
baneful (comparative more baneful, superlative most baneful)
- (archaic) Poisonous, deadly.
1791, Homer, “[The Iliad.] Book XXII.”, in W Cowper, transl., The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, , volume I, London: J Johnson, , →OCLC, page 577, lines 106–109:ome fell ſerpent in his cave expects / The traveller's approach, batten'd vvith herbs / Of baneful juice to fury, forth he looks / Hideous, and lies coil'd all around his den.
- Harmful, injurious.
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