All 4 Uses of
edifice
in
War and Peace
- He was delighted at the unexpected rapidity of his pupil's progress, but could not abandon the edifice of argument he had laboriously constructed.†
Chpt 11
- While listening to this whispering and feeling the sensation of this drawing out and the construction of this edifice of needles, he also saw by glimpses a red halo round the candle, and heard the rustle of the cockroaches and the buzzing of the fly that flopped against his pillow and his face.†
Chpt 11
- That dreadful question, "What for?" which had formerly destroyed all his mental edifices, no longer existed for him.†
Chpt 15 *
- On the one hand there is fear and regret for the loss of the whole edifice constructed through the ages, on the other is the passion for destruction.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(edifice) a building or structure -- especially a large one
or:
a conceptual or organizational framework