Both Uses of
veritable
in
Don Quixote
- Strange to say, he stood up for her as if she were in earnest his veritable born lady; to such a pass had his unholy books brought him.†
Chpt 1.23-24 *
- …herself at Don Quixote's feet, and actually did fall before them and said, as she strove to embrace them, "Before these feet and legs I cast myself, O unconquered knight, as before, what they are, the foundations and pillars of knight-errantry; these feet I desire to kiss, for upon their steps hangs and depends the sole remedy for my misfortune, O valorous errant, whose veritable achievements leave behind and eclipse the fabulous ones of the Amadises, Esplandians, and Belianises!"†
Chpt 2.37-38
Definition:
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(veritable) used for emphasis: to describe one thing as almost like another (more intense) thing