All 3 Uses of
susceptibility
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- Villefort's dusty garb, his costume, which was not of courtly cut, excited the susceptibility of M. de Breze, who was all astonishment at finding that this young man had the audacity to enter before the king in such attire.†
Chpt 9-10
- "Go on, Signor Pastrini," continued Franz, smiling at his friend's susceptibility.†
Chpt 33-34 *
- There one may learn, for instance, what, out of regard to your nervous susceptibility, I will inform you of in the drawing-room, namely, that the credit of a banker is his physical and moral life; that credit sustains him as breath animates the body; and M. de Monte Cristo once gave me a lecture on that subject, which I have never forgotten.†
Chpt 95-96
Definition:
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(susceptibility) the trait of being easily influenced or harmed