All 3 Uses of
dictate
in
Frankenstein
- Do not suppose, however, that I wish to dictate happiness to you or that a delay on your part would cause me any serious uneasiness.
Chpt 18 (definition 1)dictate = command
- These feelings dictated my answer to my father.
Chpt 18 (definition 2) *dictated = determined or controlled
- But it is your happiness I desire as well as my own when I declare to you that our marriage would render me eternally miserable unless it were the dictate of your own free choice.
Chpt 22 (definition 1) *dictate = command
Definitions:
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(1) (dictate as in: Hitler dictated that...) issue commands or orders
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(2) (dictate as in: reason dictates) determine or control what will happen