Contagion has 3 syllables and the stress is on the second syllable.
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| 1. | We remarked with pain that the indecent foreign dance called the Waltz was introduced (we believe for the first time) at the English court on Friday last ... it is quite sufficient to cast one's eyes on the voluptuous intertwining of the limbs and close compressure on the bodies in their dance, to see that it is indeed far removed from the modest reserve which has hitherto been considered distinctive of English females. So long as this obscene display was confined to prostitutes and adulteresses, we did not think it deserving of notice; but now that it is attempted to be forced on the respectable classes of society by the civil examples of their superiors, we feel it a duty to warn every parent against exposing his daughter to so fatal a contagion. | |
| 2. | Italians, he argued, are finding it hard to find their bearings to navigate the current coronavirus contagion. | |
| 3. | The contagion is damaging the Italian economy and its important tourism industry. | |
| 4. | Until recently, Romans seemed confident that the city would escape major contagion. | |
| 5. | The Italian government may turn to the army to buttress the police in enforcing a dramatic "stay-at-home" order imposed Monday by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte to try to retard the spread of the coronavirus contagion. | |
| 6. | Without the knowledge we have today about viruses, the medical response to the 1793 contagion, one of a series that swept 18th and 19th century America prompting the Yellow Fever to be nicknamed "the American Plague," was incoherent and ineffective. | |
| 7. | For the first time in recorded history, Rome — including the Vatican — are deserted on Holy Week as travel restrictions and fear of contagion are keeping pilgrims away. |