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Endemic

adjective

Of or relating to a disease (or anything resembling a disease) constantly present to greater or lesser extent in a particular locality. Synonym: endemical. "Endemic malaria" , "Food shortages and starvation are endemic in certain parts of the world"

Native to or confined to a certain region.

Originating where it is found. Synonyms: autochthonal, autochthonic, autochthonous, indigenous. "Autochthonous rocks and people and folktales" , "Endemic folkways" , "The Ainu are indigenous to the northernmost islands of Japan"

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"Endemic" Quotes from Famous Books

... fundamental transformation of future society on the basis of brotherhood and social justice, cannot elevate itself to the absolute and naive faith that criminality, insanity, and suicide can ever fully disappear from the earth. But it is our firm conviction that the endemic form of criminality, insanity, and suicide will disappear, and that nothing will remain of them but rare sporadic forms caused by lesion or telluric and ...

— The Positive School of Criminology - Three Lectures Given at the University of Naples, Italy on April 22, 23 and 24, 1901 • Enrico Ferri

... restricting the Jews' rights, the favorable attitude towards enlightenment we have noticed above would probably have remained unaltered. Unfortunately, Alexander became a fanatic conversionist. It was a time when missionary zeal became endemic, and Baroness Kruedener's influence was strengthened. The Reverend Lewis Way, having founded (1808) the London Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews, made a tour through Europe, everywhere urging the Gentiles to enfranchise ...

— The Haskalah Movement in Russia • Jacob S. Raisin

... was not only well said, but I believe expressed the general thought. Yet there is another element to be considered; for these convicts are not merely useful, they are almost essential to the French existence. With a people incurably idle, dispirited by what can only be called endemic pestilence, and inflamed with ill- feeling against their new masters, crime and convict labour are a godsend ...

— In the South Seas • Robert Louis Stevenson

... are the miasmata in general, and fatal as are the effects of that peculiar form in this country, termed malaria; the diseases they engender, I apprehend to be rather endemic than epidemic. ...

— A Love Story • A Bushman

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