Definition of Contagion

Contagion

The transmission of a disease from one person to another, by direct or indirect contact.

That which serves as a medium or agency to transmit disease; a virus produced by, or exhalation proceeding from, a diseased person, and capable of reproducing the disease.

The act or means of communicating any influence to the mind or heart; as, the contagion of enthusiasm.

Venom; poison.

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Contagion Quotations

War is a contagion.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
Thomas Paine

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
Thornton Wilder

Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.
Adam Clarke

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
Marianne Moore

He did not know what love was. And he did not know what good it was. But he knew he carried it around with him, a scabrous spot of rot, of contagion, for which there was no cure.
Harry Crews

Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization.
Lawrence Summers

The fact that I was fortunate enough to escape contagion, in spite of frequent, sometimes daily contacts with the disease, was because I soon guessed how it spread.
Charles Jules Henry Nicole

Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread.
Charles Jules Henry Nicole

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Contagion Translations

contagion in German is Ansteckung {f}
contagion in Latin is contagio contagium
contagion in Norwegian is smitte
contagion in Spanish is contagio
contagion in Swedish is smitta

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