All 8 Uses of
relative
in
Crime and Punishment
- "That's all conventional, that's all relative, merely a way of looking at it," he thought in a flash, but only on the top surface of his mind, while he was shuddering all over, "there, I've got it on!†
Chpt 2.1
- The crimes of these men are of course relative and varied; for the most part they seek in very varied ways the destruction of the present for the sake of the better.†
Chpt 3.5
- You yourself, mademoiselle, probably will not refuse to confirm my statement that I invited you through Mr. Lebeziatnikov, solely in order to discuss with you the hopeless and destitute position of your relative, Katerina Ivanovna (whose dinner I was unable to attend), and the advisability of getting up something of the nature of a subscription, lottery or the like, for her benefit.†
Chpt 5.3
- Then I took a ten-rouble note from the table and handed it to you by way of first instalment on my part for the benefit of your relative.†
Chpt 5.3
- I invite you for the benefit of your destitute relative, I present you with my donation of ten roubles and you, on the spot, repay me for all that with such an action.†
Chpt 5.3
- I saw the same thing with a relative of my own not long ago…. nearly a pint of blood, all in a minute….†
Chpt 5.5
- Everything is relative, Rodion Romanovitch, everything is relative!†
Chpt 6.2 *
- Everything is relative, Rodion Romanovitch, everything is relative!†
Chpt 6.2
Definition:
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(relative as in: the relative importance) compared with something else (not an absolute value or not complete)