All 3 Uses of
assailant
in
Great Expectations
- Besides, there had been no altercation; the assailant had come in so silently and suddenly, that she had been felled before she could look round.†
Chpt 16 *
- —and resolved to make a full disclosure if I should see any such new occasion as a new chance of helping in the discovery of the assailant.†
Chpt 16
- Under its influence (and perhaps to make up for the want of the softer feeling) I was seized with a violent indignation against the assailant from whom she had suffered so much; and I felt that on sufficient proof I could have revengefully pursued Orlick, or any one else, to the last extremity.†
Chpt 35
Definition:
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(assailant) someone who attacks