All 6 Uses of
apprehension
in
Frankenstein
- Those of his successors in each branch of natural philosophy with whom I was acquainted appeared even to my boy's apprehensions as tyros engaged in the same pursuit.
Chpt 2 (definition 1)apprehensions = understandings
- In a thousand ways he smoothed for me the path of knowledge and made the most abstruse inquiries clear and facile to my apprehension.
Chpt 4 (definition 1)apprehension = understanding
- You are forbidden to write—to hold a pen; yet one word from you, dear Victor, is necessary to calm our apprehensions.
Chpt 6 (definition 2) *apprehensions = worries
- I was ready to sink from fatigue and hunger, but being surrounded by a crowd, I thought it politic to rouse all my strength, that no physical debility might be construed into apprehension or conscious guilt.
Chpt 20 (definition 2)apprehension = concern
- Nor did my hate long confine itself to useless wishes; I began to reflect on the best means of securing him; and for this purpose, about a month after my release, I repaired to a criminal judge in the town and told him that I had an accusation to make, that I knew the destroyer of my family, and that I required him to exert his whole authority for the apprehension of the murderer.
Chpt 23 (definition 3) *apprehension = capture and arrest
- On every point of general literature he displays unbounded knowledge and a quick and piercing apprehension.
Chpt 24 (definition 1) *apprehension = understanding
Definitions:
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(1) (apprehension as in: apprehension of the situation) to understand
or:
in psychology and philosophy: immediate awareness prior to analysis and judgment
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(2) (apprehension as in: apprehension about finals) worry about what is to come
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(3) (apprehension as in: apprehension of the criminal) the capture of a criminal