bane
/beɪn/ noun C2- A cause of misery or ruin. · the bane of one’s existence
- Misery, woe; also, doom, ruin; or physical injury, harm.
Plural banes
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The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.
There are as many elixirs of every kind as there are caprices and peculiarities in the physical and moral nature of humanity; and I will say further—the art of these chemists is capable with the utmost precision to accommodate and proportion the remedy and the bane to yearnings for love or desires for vengeance.”
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