Tag: Noun Miasma

• Noun:  Miasma
  1. a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease; also :  a heavy vaporous emanation or atmosphere <a miasma of tobacco smoke>
  2. an influence or atmosphere that tends to deplete or corrupt
•  Synonyms:
  1. fetor
  2. fumes
  3. vapor
  4. foul air
• Usage:
  1. “It sometimes happens that, even contrary to principles, even contrary to liberty, equality, and fraternity, even contrary to the universal vote, even contrary to the government, by all for all, from the depths of its anguish, of its discouragements and its destitutions, of its fevers, of its distresses, of its miasmas, of its ignorances, of its darkness, that great and despairing body, the rabble, protests against, and that the populace wages battle against, the people.”
• Encountered:
  1. While reading Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

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