All 4 Uses of
ennui
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- At the Bois de Boulogne, ennui and hunger attacked me at once,—two enemies who rarely accompany each other, and who are yet leagued against me, a sort of Carlo-republican alliance.†
Chpt 39-40
- Oh, believe me, that when three great passions, such as sorrow, love, and gratitude fill the heart, ennui can find no place.†
Chpt 49-50 *
- The sultans and viziers who rule over society there, and who constitute what in France we call the government, are really Haroun-al-Raschids and Giaffars, who not only pardon a poisoner, but even make him a prime minister, if his crime has been an ingenious one, and who, under such circumstances, have the whole story written in letters of gold, to divert their hours of idleness and ennui.†
Chpt 51-52
- As we have said, he perfectly understood the old man's vocabulary, and if he did not use it more often, it was only indifference and ennui which prevented him from so doing.†
Chpt 57-58
Definition:
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(ennui) the feeling of being bored by something tedious