contagion

How To Use contagion In A Sentence

• The reports of thefe pra&itioners are certainly favourable, in fome degree, to the idea of diluting the variolous contagion; however, many more fa&s are wanting deci - sively to edablifh the fuperiour advantage of this mode of inoculation.. The Analytical Review, Or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, on an Enlarged Plan
• His violent menaces had extorted his readmission into the church, against which Cyprian protests with much vehemence: ne pecuniae commissae sibi fraudator, ne stuprator virginum, ne matrimoniorum multorum depopulator et corruptor, ultra adhuc sponsam Christi incorruptam praesentiae suae dedecore, et impudica atque incesta contagione, violaret. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1
• The concern now is that the contagion will spread from the financial system to the real economy. Times, Sunday Times
• And international response to financial crises is an imperative to limit the contagion of panic and financial losses.
• Apocalypse comes cheap in the movies today: whatever happened to create the blasted and underpeopled landscapes of The Road, The Book Of Eli or Zombieland may have its far more plausible roots in something like what we see in Contagion. Contagion is the latest change in Steven Soderbergh's chameleon career
• The spread of contagion and exit to other countries would be another matter. Times, Sunday Times
• The weeping spread like contagion to Amma and our maid.
• The problem was not physical contagion which the word disease brings to mind.
• They have been reluctant to admit AIDS patients, in part because of unfounded fears of contagion.
• The text weaves between the two time frames, the past and the future, and in both people are dying of a mysterious contagion.