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Infection   /ɪnfˈɛkʃən/   Listen
noun
Infection  n.  
1.
The act or process of infecting. "There was a strict order against coming to those pits, and that was only to prevent infection."
2.
That which infects, or causes the communicated disease; any effluvium, miasm, or pestilential matter by which an infectious disease is caused. "And that which was still worse, they that did thus break out spread the infection further by their wandering about with the distemper upon them."
3.
The state of being infected; the condition of suffering from an infectious disease; contamination by morbific particles; the result of infecting influence; a prevailing disease; epidemic. "The danger was really very great, the infection being so very violent in London."
4.
That which taints or corrupts morally; as, the infection of vicious principles. "It was her chance to light Amidst the gross infections of those times."
5.
(Law) Contamination by illegality, as in cases of contraband goods; implication.
6.
Sympathetic communication of like qualities or emotions; influence. "Through all her train the soft infection ran." "Mankind are gay or serious by infection."
7.
A localized area of tissue which is inflamed by growth of microorganisms; as, he has an infection in his finger.
Synonyms: Infection, Contagion. Infection is often used in a definite and limited sense of the transmission of affections without direct contact of individuals or immediate application or introduction of the morbific agent, in contradistinction to contagion, which then implies transmission by direct contact.. See Contagious.






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"Infection" Quotes from Famous Books



... sick to me, and we do our best, and put our trust in God. I said to myself and to Jean, 'We cannot receive these children into the presbytery, lest they should take the fever.' But this little house has been kept free from all infection, and you would be safe here for one night, so I hoped. The mignonne must have caught the fever some days ago. There is no blame, therefore, resting upon me, you understand. Now I must carry her into my little hospital. ...
— The Doctor's Dilemma • Hesba Stretton

... figs, and honey; "But tell me now, wise god!" I said, "what means the piece of money?" He smiled. "Alas! how much thy age deceives thy wit," he said; "As if sweet honey by the touch of gold were sweeter made. Even in good Saturn's day, 'twas hard to find a heart all pure, From the infection of base gain, and gainful lust secure. Small at the birth, it grew apace the thirst of yellow ore, Till heap on heap ye pile so high, that ye can pile no more. Not so the measure was of wealth in Rome's primeval time, When all was poor ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 • Various

... Gaza belonged to them, and they touched upon Sodom and Gomorrah, &c. on the other (Judg 16:1,21). They were placed therefore, by the judgment of God, between these two wicked and sinful people, that they might, as a punishment for their former sins, be infected with the sight and infection of their ungodly and monstrous abominations. They that "turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity" ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan

... but there began among our people such mortality as in a few days there were dead above two or three hundred men. And until some seven or eight days after our coming from Santiago, there had not died any one man of sickness in all the fleet. The sickness showed not his infection, wherewith so many were strucken, until we were departed thence; and then seized our people with extreme hot burning and continual agues, whereof very few escaped with life, and yet those for the most part not ...
— Drake's Great Armada • Walter Biggs

... Funchal at about twelve o'clock, and before breakfast was over found ourselves surrounded by a perfect flotilla of boats, though none of them dared approach very near until the health-officer had come alongside and pronounced us free from infection. At this moment all are complaining much of the heat, which since yesterday has been very great, and is caused by the wind called 'Este,' blowing direct from the African deserts. It was 79 deg. in the coolest ...
— A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' • Annie Allnut Brassey


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