All 24 Uses of
gratification
in
Emma
- Miss Woodhouse was so great a personage in Highbury, that the prospect of the introduction had given as much panic as pleasure; but the humble, grateful little girl went off with highly gratified feelings, delighted with the affability with which Miss Woodhouse had treated her all the evening, and actually shaken hands with her at last!†
Chpt 1.3-4
- He was reckoned very handsome; his person much admired in general, though not by her, there being a want of elegance of feature which she could not dispense with:—but the girl who could be gratified by a Robert Martin's riding about the country to get walnuts for her might very well be conquered by Mr. Elton's admiration.†
Chpt 1.3-4
- It was impossible to say how much he should be gratified by being employed on such an errand.†
Chpt 1.5-6 *
- Mr. Elton looked as if he did not very well know what answer to make; which was exactly the case; for though very much gratified by the kind care of such a fair lady, and not liking to resist any advice of her's, he had not really the least inclination to give up the visit;—but Emma, too eager and busy in her own previous conceptions and views to hear him impartially, or see him with clear vision, was very well satisfied with his muttering acknowledgment of its being "very cold,…†
Chpt 1.13-14
- She could tell nothing of Hartfield, in which Mrs. Weston had not a lively concern; and half an hour's uninterrupted communication of all those little matters on which the daily happiness of private life depends, was one of the first gratifications of each.†
Chpt 1.13-14
- Believe me, sir, I am far, very far, from gratified in being the object of such professions.†
Chpt 1.15-16
- "You are extremely kind," replied Miss Bates, highly gratified; "you who are such a judge, and write so beautifully yourself.†
Chpt 2.1-2
- Mr. Knightley looked as if he were more gratified than he cared to express; and before he could make any reply, Mr. Woodhouse, whose thoughts were on the Bates's, said— "It is a great pity that their circumstances should be so confined! a great pity indeed! and I have often wished—but it is so little one can venture to do—small, trifling presents, of any thing uncommon— Now we have killed a porker, and Emma thinks of sending them a loin or a leg; it is very small and delicate—Hartfield…†
Chpt 2.3-4
- Gratifying, however, and stimulative as was the letter in the material part, its sentiments, she yet found, when it was folded up and returned to Mrs. Weston, that it had not added any lasting warmth, that she could still do without the writer, and that he must learn to do without her.†
Chpt 2.13-14
- With a faint blush, she presently replied, "Such attentions as Mrs. Elton's, I should have imagined, would rather disgust than gratify Miss Fairfax.†
Chpt 2.15-16
- Mrs. Weston's partiality for him is very great, and, as you may suppose, most gratifying to me.†
Chpt 2.17-18
- Mr. Weston was following; but Mrs. Elton detained him, to gratify him by her opinion of his son; and so briskly did she begin, that the young man himself, though by no means moving slowly, could hardly be out of hearing.†
Chpt 3.1-2
- Mrs. Elton had undoubtedly the advantage, at this time, in vanity completely gratified; for though she had intended to begin with Frank Churchill, she could not lose by the change.†
Chpt 3.1-2
- —so gratified!†
Chpt 3.1-2
- Emma was extremely gratified.†
Chpt 3.1-2
- —She was extremely glad that they had come to so good an understanding respecting the Eltons, and that their opinions of both husband and wife were so much alike; and his praise of Harriet, his concession in her favour, was peculiarly gratifying.†
Chpt 3.3-4
- She promised him again and again to come—much oftener than he doubted—and was extremely gratified by such a proof of intimacy, such a distinguishing compliment as she chose to consider it.†
Chpt 3.5-6
- Understanding and gratification came together.†
Chpt 3.7-8
- She was warmly gratified—and in another moment still more so, by a little movement of more than common friendliness on his part.†
Chpt 3.9-10
- Emma was gratified, to observe such a proof in her of strengthened character, and refrained from any allusion that might endanger its maintenance.†
Chpt 3.9-10
- It is not a connexion to gratify; but if Mr. Churchill does not feel that, why should we? and it may be a very fortunate circumstance for him, for Frank, I mean, that he should have attached himself to a girl of such steadiness of character and good judgment as I have always given her credit for—and still am disposed to give her credit for, in spite of this one great deviation from the strict rule of right.†
Chpt 3.9-10
- The quiet, heart-felt satisfaction of the old lady, and the rapturous delight of her daughter—who proved even too joyous to talk as usual, had been a gratifying, yet almost an affecting, scene.†
Chpt 3.11-12
- Emma was gratified, and would soon have shewn no want of words, if the sound of Mrs. Elton's voice from the sitting-room had not checked her, and made it expedient to compress all her friendly and all her congratulatory sensations into a very, very earnest shake of the hand.†
Chpt 3.15-16
- You could not have gratified me more than by expressing an interest—.†
Chpt 3.15-16
Definition:
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(gratification) great satisfaction (pleasure)