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contagion

mastery

/kənˈteɪd͡ʒən/noun

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Which meaning of 'contagion' best matches its use in the sentence?

It is true, they were a good-natured and respectable set of servants, who had lived so long in their places that they might be said, by a happy contagion, to have caught kindly feelings from their superiors.