Word: blighting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...judge, if you 're able, dear ma, of my blight...
...grow, to die; bring joy or blight...
...life was a deadly blight...
...authority of the Nation closes the eye of reason, thus far is it productive of sloth. Not pessimism, but to be cowed into pessimism or anything else, therefore, is the evil. I question whether pessimism, as such, does not tend to increased activity of mind, whatever blight it may cast upon the moral sense, as involving critical examination into things ordinarily unquestioned, and a constant warfare with the received optimism. I might quote the extraordinary activity of the German Schopenhauer; and as to the general futility of any philosophical theory in stopping the processes of thought, the name of Spinoza...
...mark the horrors of that blight...