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Creative writing on the topic - science a "boon or bane

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Bane is an antonym of boon. Boon is an antonym of bane.

In context|obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between boon and bane is that boon is (obsolete) good; prosperous; as, "boon voyage" while bane is (obsolete) destruction; death.

As nouns the difference between boon and bane is that boon is (obsolete) a prayer; petition or boon can be the woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching while bane is a cause of misery or death; an affliction or curse or bane can be (chiefly|scotland) a bone.