All 4 Uses of
relative
in
Frankenstein
- Besides, the strange nature of the animal would elude all pursuit, even if I were so far credited as to persuade my relatives to commence it.
Chpt 7 (definition 1)relatives = people connected by blood or marriage
- I felt the greatest ardour for virtue rise within me, and abhorrence for vice, as far as I understood the signification of those terms, relative as they were, as I applied them, to pleasure and pain alone.
Chpt 15 (definition 2)relative = in comparison to each other
- Among the lessons that Felix had bestowed upon Safie, geography had not been omitted; I had learned from these the relative situations of the different countries of the earth.
Chpt 16 (definition 2) *
- He might remain in Switzerland and wreak his vengeance on my relatives.
Chpt 19 (definition 1) *relatives = people related by blood or marriage
Definitions:
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(1) (relative as in: they are relatives) connectedin various senses, including:
- a person related by blood or marriage -- as in "The hospital won't let me visit her because I'm not a relative."
- a plant or animal related by origin or grouping -- "The closest relative of the dog is the gray wolf."
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(2) (relative as in: the relative importance) compared with something else (not an absolute value or not complete)