All 3 Uses of
gratification
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 13 chapter version
- That curiosity about life that, many years before, Lord Henry had first stirred in him, as they sat together in the garden of their friend, seemed to increase with gratification.†
Chpt 9 *
- There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.†
Chpt 12
- On the contrary, you would probably feel that you were benefiting the human race, or increasing the sum of knowledge in the world, or gratifying intellectual curiosity, or something of that kind.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(gratification) great satisfaction (pleasure)