Pernicious
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"Puritanism no longer employs the thumbscrew and lash; but it still has a most pernicious hold on the minds and feelings of the American people."--The Hypocrisy of Puritanism by Emma Goldman "The chief culprit in the spread of this pernicious literature he referred to Mr. Vizetelly, [...] Mr. Vizetelly boasted that at the present time he was selling in England 1,000 copies of the writings of Zola weekly."--"Pernicious Literature" (1889) "Better were it that such literature [erotic literature] did not exist. I consider it pernicious and hurtful to the immature but at the same time I hold that, in certain circumstances, its study is necessary, if not beneficial." -- Catena Librorum Tacendorum (1885) by Ashbee |
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Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French pernicios, from Latin perniciōsus (“destructive”), from perniciēs (“destruction”), from per (“through”) + nex (“slaughter, death”).
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