Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Pernicious
permit (-s, -ed, -ting)perpendicular (-s)
pernicious, adj. [Fr. pernicieux < L. perniciĆs-us, destructive, baneful, ruinous.] (webplay: intemperance).
Destructive; injurious; tortuous; painful; agonizing; poignant.
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