Both Uses of
tribute
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- — Their piety would be like their names, like their faces, like their clothes, and it was idle for him to tell himself that their humble and contrite hearts, it might be, paid a far richer tribute of devotion than his had ever been, a gift tenfold more acceptable than his elaborate adoration.†
Chpt 4
- He remembered with bitterness that scene of tawdry tribute.†
Chpt 5 *
Definition:
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(tribute as in: demanded they pay tribute) payment by one nation for protection by another;
or: payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence