Meaning of Bane | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative spelling of bone.
   Scotland, alt-of, alternative, transitive
2. A cause of misery or ruin.
   countable
3. A surname.
4. Chiefly in the names of poisonous plants or substances: a poison.
   archaic, countable
5. Misery, woe; also, doom, ruin; or physical injury, harm.
   poetic, uncountable
6. A disease of sheep in which breakdown of tissue occurs; rot.
   UK, dialectal, uncountable
7. A person or thing that causes death or destruction; a killer, a murderer, a slayer.
   countable, obsolete
8. Death; destruction; (countable) an instance of this.
   obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“the bane of one’s existence”

“Money, thou bane of bliſſe, & ſourſe of vvo, / VVhence com'ſt thou, that thou art ſo freſh and fine? / I knovv thy parentage is baſe and lovv: / Man found thee poore and dirtie in a mine.”

“This is the great bane and ſcandal of the Church, that ſuch Livings as more immediately belong⟳ to it ſhould be the vvorſt ſupplyed, […]”

“All that I apprehend is, that dear Numps will be angry I have⟳ published these lines [of his poem]; not that he has any reason⟳ [to] be ashamed of them, but for fear of those rogues, the bane to all excellent performances, the imitators.”

“She, who had been the bane of his life, blighting his hope⟳, and awarding him, for love⟳ and domestic happiness, long mourning and cheerless solitude, he treated with the respect⟳ a good son might offer⟳ a kind mother.”

“At Barking, previously the bane of L.T.S. operating staff, the new works have⟳ now simplified the working of traffic from four converging routes in the area.”

“For my part I would rather counſell you to deſtroy your Rattes and Miſe with Traps, Banes, or Weeſels: for beſides the ſluttiſhneſſe & lothſomeneſſe of the Catte (you know⟳ what ſhe layes in the Malt heape) ſhe is moſt daungerous and pernicious among children, as I mee ſelf haue had good experience⟳.”

“In dairie no cat, / Laie bane for a rat. / […] / Take⟳ heede how thou laieſt, the bane for the rats, / for poiſoning ſeruant, thy ſelfe and thy brats.”

“Take⟳ this (he gaue a folded cloth and to the bane therein / he mixed ſomewhat of his blood) this ſame (quoth he) ſhall win⟳ / To thee again the Husbands loue when he ſhall it eſtrange: / For out of doubt⟳, I know⟳ it I, he takes delight in change⟳.”

“[H]e traueld through the vvatrie dreads, / For bane to poiſon his ſharpe arrovves heads, / That death, but toucht, cauſde; […]”

“Thus am I doubly arm'd; my Death and Life, / My Bane and Antidote are both before me: […]”

“Hath ſome fond lover tic'd [i.e., enticed] thee to thy bane? / And vvilt thou leave⟳ the Church, and love⟳ a ſtie?”

“He finds out, soon enough for his weal and his bane, that he is stronger than Nature: and right tyrannously and irreverently he lords it over her, clearing, delving, dyking, building, without fear or shame.”

“We haue alſo had experience⟳ yͭ the deſire of a kingdõe [kingdome] knoweth no kindred. The brother hath bene the brothers bane.”

“Let⟳ Rome her ſelfe bee bane vnto her ſelfe, / And ſhee vvhome mightie kingdomes curſie [curtsey] too, / Like⟳ a forlorne and deſperate caſt avvay, / Doe ſhamefull execution on her ſelfe.”

“[T]he broad flaſhing skies / VVith brimſtone thick and clouds of fiery bain / Shall meet⟳ vvith raging Etna's and Veſuvius flame.”

“Beside him lies the bane of his life, dead from knife-wounds.”

“I vvill not be affraid of Death and Bane, / Till Birnane Forreſt come⟳ to Dunſinane.”

“[I]f now again intoxicated and moaped with theſe royal, and therefore ſo delicious becauſe royal rudiments of bondage, the cup of deception, ſpiced and tempered to their bane, they ſhould deliver⟳ up themſelves to theſe glozing words and illuſions of him, vvhoſe rage and utmoſt violence they have⟳ ſuſtained, and overcome⟳ ſo nobly.”

“[A] great depopulation happened [due to the plague], at the Aſſiſes of Perſons of quality, and the tvvo Judges, Baron Yates, and Baron Rigby getting their banes there, died fevv dayes later.”

“Doctor [William] VVhitaker returning from Lambeth Conference, brought home vvith him the bane of his health, contracted there by hard and late ſtudying and vvatching in a very cold VVinter.”

“If meate or drinke thou never gavest nane, / Every night and alle: / The fire will burn thee to the bare bane; / And Christe receive⟳ thye saule.”

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